Samira Hamza Explores the Visual Side of Science Storytelling | MIT Knight Science Journalism

The MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellows made their annual visit to MBL in October. 

Samira Hamza almost never stops thinking about her audience. The Egyptian journalist began her career as a translator for a media research institute that analyzes how global media talk about the Arab world. She later became a translator and then senior editor for the Egyptian edition of National Geographic Magazine, where one of her favorite responsibilities was deciding which stories from the magazine’s English-language edition would resonate with her Egyptian young-adult readers. In that role, she says, she aimed to do more than just translate stories; she wanted to localize the science — to tie it to familiar cultural identifiers and on-the-ground realities — in order to make the issues relevant and accessible to people in her region.

This fall, Hamza became the second journalist ever selected for the Knight Science Journalism Program’s Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle East Fellowship. The one-semester fellowship was formed in partnership with Springer Nature to honor the late Egyptian science journalist Mohammed Yahia, for whom Hamza has expressed great admiration. Read more of the article here.

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