{"id":505,"date":"2012-08-13T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:50:30","slug":"bridging-two-worlds-kim-badawis-career-since-the-covering-a-revolution-reporting-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/bridging-two-worlds-kim-badawis-career-since-the-covering-a-revolution-reporting-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Two Worlds: Kim Badawi’s career since the “Covering a Revolution” Reporting Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a guest post by Kim Badawi, a top, young journalist who participated in the “Covering a Revolution” journalism fellowship. This post is part of the “Where Are They Now?” series<\/a>. Here is what he had to say about his experience in Cairo as a\u00a0Reporting Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reporting Fellow Kim Badawi in Cairo, Egypt. \u00a0 Photo Credit: Ben Brody\/GlobalPost (October 2011).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is a memorable moment from your time participating in the fellowship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The diversity of lectures, panels, and workshops made this a truly unique experience.<\/p>\n

What did you take away from your interaction with the other Reporting Fellows?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This opportunity helped \u00a0further networking within the industry, it also gave a face to fellow journalists whom I was familiar with their work but perhaps had never met in person. It also gave me the opportunity to share experiences with colleagues I otherwise not have had the time to socialize with.<\/p>\n

What are some of the misconceptions you had about Egyptians\/Americans (depending where you are from)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am an Egyptian-American so if anything I felt as if I was sitting between two worlds. I wasn’t always sure what side of the spectrum I was seeing from.<\/p>\n

Where are you working now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am doing freelance for various international editorial publications worldwide.<\/p>\n

What kind of projects are you focusing on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was just recently awarded the 2012 French American Foundation Immigration Journalism Fellowship and\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0sharing\u00a0my\u00a0time\u00a0between\u00a0the\u00a0African\u00a0continent\u00a0and\u00a0South\u00a0America.<\/p>\n

Overall, what kind of an impact did this fellowship have on you and your career<\/strong><\/p>\n

I very much enjoyed working with everyone at Global Post and Open Hands Initiative, and especially appreciated the guidance of Global Post co-founder Charles Sennott and photographer Gary Knight.<\/p>\n

To see examples of Kim Badawi’s work, visit kimbadawi.com<\/a>, or visit his collection of images shot for the “Covering a Revolution” Reporting Fellowship on GlobalPost.com, including his report on the camel drivers of Giza “In the Shadows of the Pyramids<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a guest post by Kim Badawi, a top, young journalist who participated in the “Covering a Revolution” journalism fellowship. This post is part of the “Where Are They Now?” series. Here is what he had to say about his experience in Cairo as a\u00a0Reporting Fellow. What is a memorable moment from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44],"tags":[45,60,52,39,37,38,42],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-reporting-fellowship","tag-covering-a-revolution","tag-gary-knight","tag-global-post","tag-journalism","tag-media-democracy","tag-tahrir-square","tag-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}