Organization: freelancer
Affiliation: NextGen@ICANN
Region: Africa
Country: Egypt
Email: amira.el7lw@gmail.com
Facebook:    Amira Mahmoud

Amira Mahmoud is a media producer, who is passionate about democracy, human rights, and internet governance. She works for Opera News which belongs to Opera browser. She got a web development diploma at ITI Egypt and an associate of media at The United States 2019.

 Amira participated in a program on internet governance in the MENA region. As one of the program’s top alumni, she received a fellowship to attend the Igmena Summit in Tunis in September of 2016.  She also took part in the ICANN59 meeting in Johannesburg- South Africa within NextGen program then she was selected as ambassador in the ICANN62 meeting in Panama. Besides she participated in  African School on Internet Governance, Africa IGF, and North Africa IGF 2017.  She is a member of ISOC Egypt and the MEAC Strategy Working Group (MEAC-SWG).

Career History edit

Media Producer filmmaker at Opera News July 2019- present

web developer "2016- 2017"

Journalist at Sout Al-Arab Newspaper "2013-2017"

ICANN and Internet Governance Participation edit

 ●   Participated in a program on internet governance in the MENA region "June-August 2016"

●   Participated at IGMENA summit as one of the best alumni "Tunis- 2016"  

●   Participated at  ICANN 59 meeting "Johannesburg - 2017" as NextGen

●   Participated at AfriSIG " Sharm Al-Shikh 2017"

●   Participated at North Africa IGF " Sharm Al-Shikh 2017"

●   Participated at Africa IGF "Sharm Al-Shikh 2017"

●   Participated at ICANN 62 meeting as ambassador "Panama city- 2018"

●   Participated at Internet governance school in MENA region "Morocco- 2019

Education edit

Associate of Digital Media at Kirkwood community college- IA, USA 2019

Diploma of web development at Information technology institute 2016

Bachelor of Arts "french language section" at Suez Canal University 2012

Publications edit

Awards edit

Awarded CCI scholarship from American department of state to study in the USA "2018-2019"