Noha Atef

• Coordination and Data Gathering Expert, ICMPD - International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Remote, 04/2022, 07/2022, Leading a team of experts appointed to map existing migration-related media content in 35 Euro-Mediaterreanean countries., Design the work methodology, supervise its execution., Problem solving all the issues that emerged during the multi-language work., Being the contact point between the migration experts and International Centre for Migration Policy Development., Editing a short reflection paper on the collected data., Preparing a report of recommendations for developing the data-gathering process in the future.
• Principal Investigator, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Remote, 07/2020, 11/2020, Leading data collection and analysis., Editing a recommendations paper for combating misinformation in Arab media., Overseeing the design of the final recommendation, including the cover and visual materials., Presenting the findings to stakeholders, Arab journalists and media practitioners.
• Consultant, Syrian Center for Media & Freedom of Expression, Remote, 10/2017, 01/2018, Co-designing the work plan for Monitoring Hate Speech in the Syrian Media project., Drafting the monitoring concept, methodology, mechanisms, tools and scope that should include studying causes, consequences and ways to combat hate speech., Drafting the media monitor training programme for four-day workshop for 22 trainees., Participating in the process of trainee recruitment., Designing and developing training materials for the monitors' training in accordance with the set objectives.

• Scientific American (Arabic Edition), Opinion, Egypt, 2021
• Almasry Alyoum Newspaper, Columnist- Egypt, 2017-2018
• Almustaqbal Newspaper, Commentator- Lebanon, 2009-2010
• Alshorouk Newspaper, Reporter- Egypt, 2008-2010
• ON T.V, Newscast Writer- Egypt, 2010
• Global Voices Advocacy- Country Reporter, 2009-2010
• New Media Production, Script Writer- Egypt, 2009
• AlArab Newspaper, Editor of the New Media Content- Qatar, 2008-2009
• AlDostour Newspaper, Reporter, and Columnist- Egypt, 2007-2009
• ANSAMed News Agency, Journalist- Egypt, 2006-2007

• How Could Researchers Employ AI in their Everyday Work?, Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet, New Adminstrative Capital, February 2024
• Postgraduate Studies for Female Journalists.. Why? and How?, Women Journalists Solidarity, November 2023
• Why might we encourage the absence of scientific evidence for medical content on the Internet, Arab Forum for Media and Sciences Communication, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, May 2023
• Doctors on YouTube: Exploring the Uses and Gratifications of Health Vloggers, The 12th International Conference on Social Media and Society, July 2022
• In the Era of Social Media, Does Qualitative Research Need 'Unconventional' Methodological Practices?, 38th Qualitative Analysis Conference and Couch-Stone Symposium, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, June 2022
• Doctors' or 'Vloggers'? Physicians' presentation of Self on social media, Canadian Communication Association Annual Meeting, May 2022
• Why Alternative Media has become a Form of Political Struggle?, Arab Council for Social Sciences Fifth Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, December 2021
• Medical Content on YouTube: The Case of Skincare Vlogs of Egyptian Bloggers, Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication, February 2021

• Why Alternative Media has become a Form of Political Struggle?, Arab Council for Social Sciences Fifth Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, December 2021
• How Covid-19 Has Benefitted Journalists in North Africa?, African Women in Media 2021, December 2021
• Online Revolutionary Media in Egypt, Rayrson University, Ottawa, Canada, November 2021
• Medical Content on YouTube: The Case of Skincare Vlogs of Egyptian Bloggers, Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication, February 2021

• Advanced News Reporting
• News & Its Sources
• Drama on Radio & Television
• Documentary Films
• Film & Television Writing
• Broadcast Writing & Editing
• Media & Politics
• Media & Society
• Media Concepts
• Introduction to Communication
• Video Production for Online Delivery
• Visual Cultures: Modernism to Postmodernism

• Web Advocacy Tactics, Cairo Human Rights Centre Workshop, Mansoura, Mansoura, 2013
• Social Media for Human Rights Activists, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bishkek, Bishkek, 2012
• Social Media for journalists, School of Authentic Journalism, Mexico, 2011
• Social Media for Storytelling, Public Journalism Club's Citizen Reporting Boot Camp, Yerevan, Armenia, 2011
• Human Rights in the Time of New Media, Cairo Human Rights Centre, Egypt, 2010
• Web Campaigning, Arab Bloggers Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon, 2009
• Social Media and Activism, Info Activism Camp, India, 2009

• Best Presentation Prize, The Postdoctoral Association at Simon Fraser University, CAD 200, Presenting the Doctor Who Vlog research project in the multi-disciplinary annual meeting, April 2021
• Travel Grant, The Memorial University, CAD 400, Attending 'The Qualitatives 33th Cycle', 2022
• Travel Grant, The Arab Council for Social Science, Attending the fifth ACSS conference, 'Interrogating the Social Sciences in the Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change', 2021
• Travel Grant, International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC), USD 2000, Reflection Paper: The Power Dynamics Characterizing the Relationship between Researchers and Research Participants in Social Media Research, 2019
• Research Grant, The Arab Council for Social Science, USD 4000, Pilot Study: Blogging as a Source of Information for the Arab Teenagers about Puberty and University Life, 2019-2020
• Certificate of Appreciation, The Canadian International College (CIC) in Cairo, Appreciation of excellence in teaching, 2018
• Birmingham City University Studentship, Doctoral Research (Fees waiver+ Monthly allowance GBP1500), 2011
• Chevening Scholarships Award, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Full scholarship to study a Master degree- Tuition fees+ living allowance, 2010

• Books, ملاعلإا يبعشلا :نيب ةلود ملاعلإا ملاعإو ةلودلا The Media of People: Between the State-Owned Media & Mediatization, Cairo: AlArabi
• Thesis, The Interaction Between Citizen Media and the Mainstream Media: Media Organisation in Egypt during 2011, 2012 & 2013, Birmingham City University, 01/2017, https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/7182/
• Journal Publications, Why Do Health Professionals Create Content on Social Media? Uses and Gratifications of Egyptian 'Physician Vloggers' on YouTube, The Journal of Social Media in Society, 2, 12, 188-210, https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/1287
• Journal Publications, 'Influencers' or 'Doctors'? Physicians' Presentation of Self in YouTube and Facebook Videos, International Journal Of Communication, 17, 24, https://lnkd.in/d89VMegV
• Journal Publications, If the Evidence is Not Research, What is it? Egyptian Physicians' Explanations of the Lack of Research Citations in their Health Vlogs, Health & New Media, 6, 2, https://www.hnmr.org/m/journal/view.php?number=52
• Preprint, If Research is Not the Evidence, What is it? Egyptian Physicians' Explanations of the Lack of Research Citations in their Health Vlogs, bioRxiv, 04/25/2022, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.25.489430
• Journal Publications, YouTube Arab Bloggers' Uses and Gratifications تاجايتحلاا تاعابشلإاو يتلا اهمدقي بويتوي ينودمل ةيناسنلإا مولعلل ةيبرعلا ةلجملا .برعلا ويديفلا, Arab Journal for Humanities, 1, 156, 105-140, 2021, https://doi.org/10.34120/0117-039-156-004
• Journal Publications, The Coping Mechanisms of the Women of Struggling Class as Represented in the Egyptian Television Drama about Domestic Workers Analytical Reading for the Series ālḥsāb yǧmʿ (Justice Will Be Made) تايلآ لماعت ةأرملا ةحداكلا عم عارصلا يقبطلا وتامزلأا يتلا ياهزرف :ةءارق ةيليلحت لسلسمل (باسحلا عمجي ), Media Studies Journal, 14, 82-99, 2023, https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/drmgk
• Journal Publications, New Meanings of Heroism: Types of Sports 'Heroes' in Egyptian Cinema, Journal of Cultural Linguistical and Artistic Studies, 2019, https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20611.02086
• Journal Publications, Why Qualitative Research about Media Activism Could be Hard?, Communication & Methods, 1, 2, 221-232, 2019, https://doi.org/10.35951/v1i2.41
• Journal Publications, تاعاذلإا ةيلهلأا يف ةيردنكسلأا ...اذامل ؟يفتخت Pourquoi les Radios locales Disparaissent a Alexandrie?, Egypt/Monde Arabe journal, 218-238, 2018, https://doi.org/10.4000/ema.3856

• Television Writing, The Union of Media Women in Egypt, Cairo, Cairo, 04/2018
• Peer-reviewing Research, Publons Academy, Online, 03/20017
• The British Examination & Grading System, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Cairo, 11/2017
• Using Turnitin for Marking and Providing Feedback, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Cairo, 03/2016

Books

Atef, N. (2017). The Media of People: Between the State-Owned Media &  Citizen Media :Cairo: AlArabi.

Thesis

Hefny, Noha Atef (2017) The Interaction Between Citizen Media and the Mainstream Media: Media Organisation in Egypt during 2011, 2012 & 2013. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University. https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/7182/

Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. (2023) “Why Do Health Professionals Create Content on Social Media? Uses and Gratifications of Egyptian “Physician Vloggers” on YouTube” The Journal of Social Media in Society. 2 (12), 188-210. Retrieved from: https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/1287

Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. (2023). “Influencers” or “Doctors”? Physicians’ Presentation of Self in YouTube and Facebook Videos. International Journal Of Communication, 17(24). Retrieved from https://lnkd.in/d89VMegV

Atef, N., (2023.). "If the Evidence is Not Research, What is it? Egyptian Physicians’ Explanations of the Lack of Research Citations in their Health  Vlogs". Health & New Media, 6,2. Retrieved from https://www.hnmr.org/m/journal/view.php?number=52

Preprint: "If Research is Not the Evidence, What is it? Egyptian Physicians' Explanations of the Lack of Research Citations in their Health Vlogs". bioRxiv 489430; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.25.489430

Atef, N. (2021). YouTube Arab Bloggers' Uses and Gratifications  Arab Journal for Humanities, 1(156), 105–140. https://doi.org/10.34120/0117-039-156-004

Atef, N. (2021) The Coping Mechanisms of the Women of Struggling Class as Represented in the Egyptian Television Drama about Domestic Workers Analytical Reading for the Series ālḥsāb yǧmʿ (Justice Will Be Made)  Media Studies Journal, VOL 14, pp 82-99. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/drmgk

Atef, N. (2019). New Meanings of Heroism: Types of Sports ‘Heroes' in Egyptian Cinema. Journal of Cultural Linguistical and Artistic Studies https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20611.02086

Atef, N. (2019). Why Qualitative Research about Media Activism Could be Hard? (¿Por qué la investigación cualitativa sobre el activismo mediático puede ser difícil?) /Communication & Methods, 1 (2), 221-232. https://doi.org/10.35951/v1i2.41

Atef, N. (2018).Pourquoi les Radios locales Disparaissent a Alexandrie? (The Community Radios in Alexandria.. Why they Disappear?). Egypt/Monde Arabe journal, 218-238. https://doi.org/10.4000/ema.3856

Book Chapters (Peer-reviewed)

Atef, N. (2019). Revolutionary Socialists' Media in Egypt (2005-2015): What the Internet has done to the Left Organisation?. In J. M. Joseph Ibrahim, Contemporary Left-Wing Activism VOL 2 (pp. 47-62). London & New York: Routledge.

Atef, N. (2019) Can People Make their Revolutionary Media Online? Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age (pp 203-216). IGI Global.

Accepted Manuscripts

Atef, N., Confused, Rebellious and Depressed: Liberated Women in Egyptian Cinema. Edited collection by Noha Mellor. Routledge.

Unpublished

Atef, N. (2022, April 16). When a Facebook Page Becomes an Actual Newsroom, What Can Journalists Learn? The Case of Rassd News Network - Egypt. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nkb7q

Industry-focused

Recommendation Paper Atef, N; Mostafa, B; elmahdy (2020) Combating Disinformation in the Arab World: Covid-19 as a Case study (Recommendation Paper), The Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).

Articles Scientific American (Arabic Edition) https://www.scientificamerican.com/arabic/author/noha-atef/

PowerPoint slides, Text summaries and audio summaries of my research https://figshare.com/authors/Noha_Atef/12501727