Sabah Hamamou (صباح حمامو) is an Egyptian journalist, the acting head of business section at ''

Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' (; ), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second-oldest after '' Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian governm ...

Professional

Hamamou started her career in 1994 as a general assignment trainee reporter at one of Al-Ahram's publications, the monthly Al-Shabab magazine, while at the same time attending

Cairo University Cairo University () is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of En ...

. After she obtained a BA in Arabic and literature in 1997, she decided to dedicate her career to journalism. In addition to working for Al-Shabab, she began to write pieces for the Saudi

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, a world-famous daily newspaper, Al-Maraa Al-Youm, an independent Emirati weekly magazine, and Al-Qahira, an Egyptian government owned weekly newspaper, as well as other publications. In 2003, she was offered a permanent position at Al-Ahram's daily newspaper as a staff writer in the business section. Despite having no previous experience in business journalism, Although she began her career in print-media, she occasionally produces video reports and maintains a blog and professional profiles on various social media networks.

Egyptian Revolution

Hamamou covered the

Egyptian Revolution of 2011 The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (;), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police holiday" as a statement against ...

for the Al-Ahram website and for her own online channe
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The Revolution Channel
br /> Sabah Hamamou became a frequent commentator on

and on Media in Egypt, she was Interviewed by

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and Newsweek ''Time'', the Wall Street Journal, The World and Associated Press. She also wrote for

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br>Egyptian Journalism: An Oddly Connected Mix of Old and New Media

Book Author and a Publisher

Hamamou wrote the book ''Memoirs of a journalist at Al-Ahram'', in June 2012, to speak up about how Al-Ahram was managed under

Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 and the 41st prime minister from 1981 to 1982. He was previously ...

regime, the first such account by a journalist at

since it was founded in 1876.
In May 2013 she founded Ha'aa (حاء), a publishing house to support the values of The Egyptian Revolution, 'Right', ' Right of life', ' Freedom', all the words would start in Arabic with the very same letter ( ح ) which happen to be the first letter of Sabah Hamamou Family name ( حمامو)

Honors

She has received several awards and fellowships for her work in journalism, including: Best Journalist Certificate of Merit from Al- Ahram Regional Institute For Journalism, 2003. Middle East and North Africa Media Fellowship from Northwestern University, 2006. Knight Wallace Fellowship,

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: In 2010, Hamamou was the first Egyptian journalist to be awarded this prestigious Fellowship.

References

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