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Azza Kamel Maghur

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Known For: Director of Appropriate Comunication Techniques for Development (ACT) and Founder of Women Research Centre
Country: Egypt

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Azza Kamel Maghur is the Director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT) and the Founder of Women Research Centre. Over the past 16 years, Ms. Maghur has worked as an activist to fight violence against women. She advocates equality between men and women and, as a social development and gender expert, conceptualizes plans, implements, and evaluates projects in the social development field. She also undertakes women’s projects for various public and private organizations and NGOs.

Ms. Maghur is an experienced resource person on numerous gender and women’s issues, in addition to human rights, communication, community health, education, civic education, media monitoring, and environmental issues. She has extensive experience in designing training programs, evaluation techniques, and qualitative social science needs assessment.

Ms. Maghur is completing a Ph.D. in Civic Education. She has already earned diplomas in Mathematics, Astronomy, Computer Science, and Education, as well as certificates in Gender Policy and Planning and Health Communications.  Ms. Maghur is a member of Karama’s Egypt group, where she coordinates the media realm, and is the regional coordinator of the Arab Network for Monitoring the Image of Men and Women Media. Ms. Kamel is also the national coordinator of the Egyptian network for media monitoring and the national coordinator of Aswatna group for voter education, formed of Egyptian CSOs. She has published many studies on the image of men and women in the print and television media.

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