Bio
Dr. Azza A. Ahmed is an associate professor in Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University in Egypt and the Abu-Dhabi University in UAE. She is the coordinator of Mass Communication Program at the College of Arts and Sciences ADU since 2011. She created the Mass Communication Program and has written its curriculum and study plan. She is an active member in many important committees on the ADU level and the College of Arts and Sciences level.
Dr. Azza has been recognized as the Distinguished University Professor in Teaching on the Emirates and Arab World leves by Khalifa Award for Education on April 2016.
Dr. Azza is a board member in the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators AUSACE. Also, she is the Arabic editor of the Journal of Middle East Media JMEM since 2006. She is a member of the Arab European Association for Communication Professors and Researchers since 2013. She is a member of the editorial board for some international journalism such as Media and Society and conferences, such as AEJMC.
Her research interest includes: TV news objectivity, media effect on audiences, media credibility, media ethics, assessments of ethics among Arab media researchers, and new media usages among Arabs. Her researches have appeared in Cross-Cultural Communication Journal, the International E-Politics Journal, the Egyptian Journal of Communication Research and the Egyptian Journal of Public Opinion. Dr. Azza has published over fifteen media-related researches in local and international referred journals. She supervised many undergraduate research projects as well as post graduates thesis and dissertations.
Dr. Azza has finished her MA studies at the American University in Cairo in 1993. She got a professional diploma in TV production and a graduate diploma in TV news editing from TV Center at the AUC. She got her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Cairo University in 2001.