Profile of the Month: Dr. Nadia El-Awady Interview

Name: Nadia El-Awady

Nationality: Egyptian

Age: 41

What do you do? I have a B.Sc in medicine and surgery from Cairo University and a MA in journalism and mass communication from the American University in Cairo. I am a journalist with a gazillion jobs and hats. Just to name a few: freelance journalist, President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, lecturer of online journalism at the Al-Ahram Canadian University, program manager for the International Center for Journalists, Middle East Regional Coordinator for a large training program for African and Arab science journalists, co-director of the 7th World Conference for Science Journalists in 2011…and on and on. More importantly, I have four beautiful children aged 15, 13, 12 and 10.