The Middle East Journalism Boot Camp offers a first-hand, in-depth understanding of the modern Arab world, Islam and American policy in the region.

The three-week program brings together 12 American journalism students – one each from the top U.S. journalism schools – with 12 of their counterparts from The American University in Cairo and Qatar University. It is assumed that students will arrive with a basic grounding in journalism in order to learn how to apply that knowledge in a Middle East context. The goal is to produce: 

• The next generation of Middle East correspondents for Western news      organizations and U.S./Europe-based correspondents for the Arab media; 
• Western journalists better equiped to report  on domestic stories involving Arab and Muslim communities in their own localities;  
• Arab reporters better positioned to report on the impact of Western policies on their own region.

Organizer   

The Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research is home to the most respected graduate journalism degree in the Arab world. Its alumni can be found in the newsrooms of the leading Arab satellite television channels and many of the region’s top newspapers. The center also trains professional journalists and carries out a wide range of research and publishing activities on the intersection of media and policy in the region. 


Sponsoring Institutions


The American University in Cairo

Since its founding in 1919, the American University in Cairo has been an important force in the intellectual and cultural development of Egypt and the Middle East. Its position as a Western-style institution within Cairo and its diverse student body and faculty make AUC ideal for the type of cross-cultural understanding that is essential for the next generation of leaders.

Qatar University

Qatar University is an intellectual and scholarly community characterized by open discussion, the free exchange of ideas, respectful debate, and a commitment to rigorous inquiry. QU seeks to be a model national university that offers high quality, learning-centered education to its students.

Sponsors

The program is made possible through generous grants from Qatar University and The Carnegie Corporation of New York.