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Employment Experience: 2019-2020: Freelance activities Writer/editor, B2Press - Wrote, edited press releases for Istanbul-based PR firm B2Press - Wrote, edited English-language content for firm’s website Copy editor, The Guide Istanbul/The Guide Bodrum - Copy-edited all content for the magazines’ bimonthly Istanbul editions and annual Bodrum edition 2015-2019: Editor, Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu Agency (Ankara HQ) - Ran Middle East desk at agency’s English-language news service - Managed four writers/translators, assigning stories and editing copy translated from Arabic and Turkish - Commissioned news stories from freelancers and agency correspondents based overseas - Followed the agency’s Arabic-language news wire for breaking developments - Translated news stories from Arabic wire when translators were not available 2013-2015: Copy editor, Anadolu Agency (Cairo bureau) - Copy-edited news from Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa for the agency’s English-language news service - Job entailed editing large amounts of copy (40-plus stories per day), often under stressful conditions brought on by Egypt’s 2013 military coup (after which Egypt-Turkey relations became increasingly hostile) 2011-2013: Editor, Ahram Online, the English-language website of Egypt’s official Al-Ahram press agency - Edited articles and interviews (politics, economy, culture) before publishing them on website - Coached younger writers on how to write news stories, features 2009-2011: Editor, Egyptian Independent, the English-language news website of private Arabic-language daily Al-Masry Al-Youm - Edited news articles and interviews (politics, economy, culture) before publishing them on website - Selected relevant stories for translation/publication from Al-Masry Al-Youm’s print edition 2000-2013: Freelance journalist/writer - Wrote numerous Middle East stories for Inter Press Service (IPS), especially pertaining to Israel-Palestine and Egypt’s 2011 Tahrir Square uprising and 2013 military coup - Wrote Egypt articles for Al-Jazeera’s English-language website and economy stories for ArabFinance.com - Wrote several sector surveys for the Oxford Business Group’s emerging market series, including those for Egypt, Qatar, Tunisia, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Dubai - Wrote news articles for The Cairo Times, Cairo magazine and the New York Daily News - Wrote several reports on Egypt’s media sector for Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer and Friedrich Ebert foundations 2003-2005: Publications dept. manager, AmCham-Egypt; Editor-in-chief, Business Monthly magazine - Oversaw production of Business Monthly magazine, the official journal of the Cairo-based American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (AmCham-Egypt) - Oversaw production of all additional AmCham-Egypt publications 2002-2004: Country analyst, Deutsche Bank (freelance) - Translated, compiled news from the Arabic-language press for the ‘geostrategy’ and ‘domestic politics’ sections of Eurasia Group’s monthly Egypt report 2001-2003: Deputy editor, Business Monthly magazine, Amcham-Egypt - Wrote and edited articles for the magazine - Commissioned stories, photos from freelance writers, photographers - Covered major press events and economy-related conferences held in Cairo - Translated material from the Arabic-language press for use in magazine articles 2000-2001: Country analyst, Euromoney (freelance) - Compiled news items from the Arabic and international press for daily economy newsletter 2000: Copyeditor, Business Monthly magazine, Amcham-Egypt - Read and edited magazine for grammar and style 1999: ESL Instructor, City University, Cairo - Planned and taught English-language courses for the university’s newly-established ESL department 1998-1999: ESL Instructor, English Language Services (ELS), Cairo - Designed and taught ESL programs at off-site locations in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula (Ain Sukhna, Abu Rudeis) 1998: ESL Instructor, British Council, Cairo - Taught beginner- and intermediate-level ESL classes Education - Upper-Intermediate Certificate for Arabic Language Proficiency, British Council, Cairo (1999) - Cambridge CELTA Certificate for Teaching English as Foreign Language, ILI, Cairo (1998) - Year-Abroad Program, American University in Cairo (1993-94) Languages English: Native speaker Arabic (Egyptian dialect): Spoken (good); reading (good) Turkish: Beginner-level