Through its Ambassador in Egypt, Fatma Elzahraa Elsayed, IAMCR had a strong presence at three major international academic events in the country, hosting Association members interested in the events' topics in specialised sessions that garnered significant interaction and attendance, along with extensive coverage from Egyptian media outlets.
30th International Conference of the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University (7–8 May)
The theme was Future of Health Communication in the Age of AI Technologies. All IAMCR members were invited through the regular announcements, and ten researchers from universities and colleges of mass communication in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and China contributed to the conference, Shahla Adnan (Pakistan), Song Jian & Sun Qingxue (China), Jude Willian Genillo (Philippines) Icaro Ferraz Vidal (Brazil), Kamalanathan Karthik (Indea), Emenyeonu Ogadimma (UAE), Habibullahi Jimoh, Peter Ugondo, Vivian Ifeoma Onwuka, Maggai Tsokwa (Nigeria). The researchers participated in two parallel sessions. Certificates of appreciation were delivered to all participants immediately after the session bearing the logos and sponsors of the conference, including the IAMCR as academic partners.
LANACOM Conference, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria (3–4 May)
The conference was titled Intercultural Dialogues and Sustainable Horizons of Media, language, and Culture and the invited members of IAMCR were from, India, Pakistan, and Czechia. Certificates of appreciation were sent to them bearing the logos of the sponsors, including the IAMCR logo as an academic partner. Prof. Nico Carpentier was one of the guest speakers of LANACOM.
Journalism Forum, Cairo University (23–25 June)
With the participation from Mustapha Mohamed (Nigeria), Uma Shankar Pandey (India), and Jason Ginous (United States), the session was titled Challenges of teaching and practicing Journalism in the Age of AI. Certificates of appreciation were delivered to speakers after the conference.
IAMCR ambassador with journalism department staff after the session
Online participation at Journalism forum of Cairo university
IAMCR 2025 participation
The IAMCR ambassador distributed souvenirs from Egypt in the form of small cases with pharaonic images to all participants of ISM/WG sessions and some IAMCR conference attendees.
The IAMCR Ambassador in Egypt intends to carry on organising intellectual and cultural collaboration events between the association's members around the world and media and communication researchers and students in Egypt during the second half of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026. One of the most promising outcomes of this activity is the expression of interest from several Egyptian universities and academic institutions to host the IAMCR annual conference in the coming years.