Mohamed El-Bendary

Mohamed El-Bendary is an Egyptian (he also holds a US citizenship) who was educated in both the United States and England. He works as an independent researcher and a freelance translator from Cairo, Egypt. He taught media studies and international relations classes in America and New Zealand. He received an MA in journalism and public affairs from the American University in Washington, D.C.; a postgraduate certificate in Arabic-English translation studies from the University of Westminster in London; and a BA in media communications from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked as an independent journalist in America for five years and published nearly 100 articles in major American newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Editor and Publisher magazine, among others, as well as in the New Zealand dailies Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald.