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College of Language and Communication in Alexandria Graduates a new Batch
Under the patronage of His Excellency Prof. Ismail Abdel Ghaffar Ismail Farag, President of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, the graduation projects of 2021 students of both Language & Translation Department and Media Department were presented and discussed at the headquarters of the Arab Academy in Abu Qir.
The College of Language and Communication at the Arab Academy in Alexandria celebrated the graduation of a new batch of students in both departments on Wednesday 4th of August.
His Excellency Professor Ismail Abdel Ghaffar Ismail Faraj congratulated the students at the beginning of his speech in the event, and welcomed the honourable guests, and stressed that the graduates of the Academy are always its best ambassadors. He also praised the perseverance of our students to excel and succeed despite all the circumstances surrounding them during the pandemic.
Prof. Abeer Refky, Dean of College of Language and Communication at the Arab Academy in Alexandria, expressed her happiness at graduating the class of 2021 who faced a great challenge due to the pandemic and praised the level and diversity of the projects presented this year. She added that these projects “are the result of a yearlong effort and determination, which is not new to the students at our college which started off as a dream that came in 2012 with the help of the AAST Godfather Professor Ismail Abdel Ghaffar, and now the number of graduates in Alexandria only exceeds 1,000 students, not to mention other branches in Heliopolis and Smart Village.”
A number of public figures and professors from different universities in Egypt and abroad attended the event in addition to the jury that included Prof. Dr. Sami Abdel Aziz, former Dean of the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, Prof. Azza Heikal, AAST Vice President of Media Affairs, Prof. Sami Taya, AAST Vice President, Prof. Sameh Al-Ansary, Head of Phonetics and Linguistics Department and former Vice Dean in Alexandria University, and Director of Alexandria University Information Technology Center, and director Ibrahim Fakhr.
The event included presentations of the project of the Media Department students. This year, the projects covered topics such as the importance of volunteer work, blending reality and imagination, the impact of social media on young people, and how to build a new generation capable of facing challenges in several areas. The students of the Media Department identified five main components for the challenges facing young people in Egypt including the challenges that face independent film industry and the challenges that face digital media which affects the mentality and privacy of young people. For the first time, a distinguished group of students write and direct the first radio drama series based on Fantazia stories collection written by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik.
These presentations coincide with the media campaigns of these projects which has started on March 1st. These media campaigns aim to show the innovation and creativity of the students in various fields such as photography, scriptwriting, making short documentaries, graphic design as well as many other fields.
The event also included presentations by the students of the Language and Translation department for their graduation projects. The projects tackled a wide variety of topics under the theme of Women Empowerment. This theme is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 5. The topics included sexual harassment, gender inequality, domestic violence during the pandemic, and women education. The projects also included well written research papers that covered important translation issues such as subtitling documentaries and animation movies, translating websites and infographs, translation UN articles, and shedding on the challenges of audio-visual translation in general. Prof. Al-Ansari praised the students’ language proficiency and research skills and highlighted that their papers are up to the level of MA theses rather than undergraduate research papers.