Ethar El-Katatney

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Ethar El-Katatney is an Egyptian journalist known for her investigative feature articles. She currently works full time as a staff writer at Egypt Today^[1] and Business Today^[2]. She is also known for participating in numerous international conferences that promote peace and an understanding of Islam and Islamic culture around the world.

El-Katatney was part of the Habib Ali Al Jifri Litaarafuu dialogue in Abu Dhabi to bridge the cultural gap created by the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, where she moderated a number of workshops and gave the closing speech on the Muslim side along with Moez Masoud, a young Islamic scholar.^[3]. Her speech is available at Habib Ali’s website [1].

Other countries she has traveled to for conferences include Denmark, Turkey ^[4], and Norway.

In 2006, she travelled to England with Amr Khaled, the popular Egyptian televangelist, in a three week youth training program. She joined him in an Islamic talk show called "Human Insights" that aired Ramadan 2006 on El-Mehwar channel.

Ethar also worked as a researcher with Moez Masoud for his new program "The Right Way," which aired Ramadan '07.

Along with a recent NYU alumni, she has written a non-fiction book on cross cultural perceptions and representations, date of publication still unset.

She is a graduate of the American University in Cairo, with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Arab and Islamic Civilization. Currently, she is pursuing two masters degrees also at the AUC: an MBA and an MA in Journalism. As a student, she was editor-in-chief of Dimensions, one of two main student-run newspapers on campus, and was selected as one of 6 students to blog on the AUC Website.[2]. She gave the graduation speech during her commencement ^[5] and was nominated for the Parent's Association cup. ^[6].

Her articles can be accessed here.[3]