Yasmeen Ebada

An Egyptian native, I completed my bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 2016 while playing division one tennis for the Samford Women’s Tennis team. Two years later, I was selected for the dual master’s program in journalism from Ohio University and global mass communication from Leipzig University in Germany. My academic area of research centers on the history of war correspondence (specifically female correspondents), war trauma and media censorship. My professional experience includes freelance local newspaper writing (in the U.S. and in Egypt), magazine writing and PR work. I have worked as a freelance journalist since I graduated from college. My love of writing stemmed from my experience as the sports editor of my college newspaper. I have returned to Egypt to work as a journalist to cover local news. My goal is to eventually work as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and to teach journalism and historiography at a university. I want to write stories that will make a difference.