Who are the judges?

Reem Maged graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication. She started her broadcasting career with Nile TV - Nile International Channel - where she worked for 12 years. She worked there first as an assistant director, next as a director, then as a correspondent, later as a producer and editor-in-chief and finally as program and news anchor. She has also directed a series of documentaries for Al Jazeera Children's Channel. After that, Ms. Maged hosted EL A’ALAM FE SA’AA and BEL MASRY EL FASEEH on ONTV and co-hosted, alongside Ibrahim Issa, BALADNA program. Currently she is presenting BALADNA BEL MASRY on ONTV channel. 

Sandra Nashaat is an Egyptian movie director. She obtained her Bachelor's degree from the Higher Institute of Cinema, Filmmaking Department (1992) and Bachelor's degree in French Literature (1993). Ms. Nashaat started her career directing successful video clips. Her first art work was the short movie LAST WINTER and a documentary called AL MOVIOLA. The first movie she directed was MABROOK & BOLBOL, followed by famous WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LOVE YOU?, and MALAKI ALEXANDRIA.

Dr. Elshayeb is the Director of the Embassies of Knowledge Initiative at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the coordinator of EU programs on Higher Education, the advisor to the Minister of Higher Education for International Cooperation, and associate professor of Engineering at Cairo University. He graduated from Cairo University with a degree in Engineering, and obtained his PhD from Nancy School of Mines in France. Dr. Elshayeb have always been active in the fields of Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation, Risk Assessment, Project management, and Research. He was the Director of the Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural heritage and, for many years, acted as The Egyptian National Contact Point for European research programs.

Yosri Fouda is an investigative reporter, journalist and  a TV host. He graduated from Cairo University with a degree in Mass Communication, and later obtained his master's degree at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Yosri started off his career by joining BBC, here he worked as a reporter and took part in establishing BBC Arabic service. In 1996 Yosri joined newly formed Al Jazeera channel as a UK and Western Europe correspondent and in the following year, he established Al Jazeera's office in London. He was one of the channels's star figures until he resigned in 2009. Soon after his resignation Yosri moved to the Cairo-based ONTV Egyptian Channel to host a talk show AKHER KALAM (The final word).