Services
Interviewing Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga, 2012
From Cairo, Egypt I produce:
- Live hits, phoners, type syncs, short news or feature length TV and radio pieces.
- Articles and embedded videos for newspapers, magazines, blogs or other online publications.
- Writing authorized books/novels about the lives of leaders in the Middle East and the United States.
I tell stories about culture, lifestyle, business, art, music, religion and politics. Please contact me for rates.
Creator
The Fisherman and the Sea in Alexandria, 2014
NOVEL WRITING AS MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING
I write novel length fiction and nonfiction and bring my multimedia skills – audio and video production – to my books, making them digitally interactive ebooks:
- Co-Wrote the published memoir Run Ruby Run with New Orleans shooting victim.
- Completed a fictionalized memoir about Istanbul, Turkey – where I lived for 6 years before coming to Cairo.
- Working on a non-fiction book about the Gülen Movement in Egypt.
- Translating the Turkic Oral Epic poem Alpamish from Kazaki Turkish to English.
- Produced short stories and academic research.
Instructor
Teaching As a Blessed Profession…
Visiting the Pyramids with my University Students, 2015
I have worked in Istanbul, New Orleans and in Cairo as an instructor of Journalism, Rhetoric & Composition and ESL. I care for my students and work to:
- Support students doing civic based citizen journalism in which they connect with locals on the ground and progressive institutions in Cairo.
- Streamline classrooms into a 100% digital learning environment; putting all papers, lecture notes, classroom discussions and class reading online in student e-portfolios.
- Bring “gaming” as an educational tool into the classroom.
- Produce a series of Pod-Casts for students on digital and academic success
Masters Thesis Work with Egyptian and Turkish Students, 2014
- Facilitate the growth of student based small group discussions on classroom presentations and essays
- Attend (sometimes with my students) multiple academic and professional conferences and workshops to improve teaching, understanding and knowledge production in the classroom
- Create prompts for student presentations and essays
- Lead class trips to the Pyramids, the Nile River, Tahrir Square and other sites of journalistic and social import in Cairo
- Organize and lead monthly “academic/art salons” and “newsroom student/reporter meetings” of former and present students to facilitate student growth during and after class
LANGUAGES
My fluency in Arabic and Turkish contributes to direct connections with locals and better overall storytelling.
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION
- Tape Syncs
- Remote Recordings
- Ambient Sound
- Video Blogs (Vlogs)
EQUIPMENT
- Sound Studio: Professional Sound Production
- Audio Recording : Marantz 660, Olympus LS-10
- Microphones: ElectroVoice RE 50 & Audio-Technica 897 Shotgun
- Video Cameras: Sony Lens G Cyber-shot
- Sound Production: Logic Express and Audacity
- Video Production: Final Cut Express
- Able to transmit audio via FTP, Dropbox, or e-mail