FY06 MRP "GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM," JANUARY 19

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 CAIRO 003133 SIPDIS FOR ECA/PE/V/M BENSON, INFO ECA/PE/V/R/N AND NEA/PPD E.O. 12958: NA TAGS: OEXC KPAO EG SUBJECT: FY06 MRP "GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM," JANUARY 19 FEBRUARY 9, 2006 EGYPT NOMINATION REF: A. CAIRO 2571 ¶B. STATE 63354 ¶1. PA Cairo is pleased to nominate Ms. Shafky Halim Aly EL MONIERY, Presenter and Producer, Egyptian Television, to participate in the subject MRP. ¶2. Following is full EVDB nomination and DS-2019 information: START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be : edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB VERSION: 3.0.5 POST-EMAIL: exchangescairo@state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Cairo TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 2875 EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA START NOMINATION: ECA-OFFICE: E/VM PROG-AGENCY-NAME: POST-PROJ-ID: 208 ECA-PROJ-NO: PROJ-NAME: Grassroots Activism START MEMO PROJ-DESC: END MEMO PROJ-DESC: PROJ-TYPE: Multi-Regional PROG-TYPE: IV Group Projects FY: 2005 DEPART-POST: 1/17/2006 SESSION-DATE: 1/19/2006 RETURN-POST: 2/10/2006 NO-OF-PART: 1 RANK-ORDER: 0 START MEMO POST-OBJ: END MEMO POST-OBJ: START MEMO POST-RCMD: END MEMO POST-RCMD: ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1027 PROG-AGENCY-ID: PROJ-TYPE-ID: MRP PROG-TYPE-ID: 31 NOMINATING-POST-ID: 2875 FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: STATUS: N ORIGINATOR: P SUBJ-DISC: Grassroots Democracy START BIO: PREFIX: Ms. F-NAME: Shafky M-NAME: Halim Ali L-NAME: El Moniery SUFFIX: POSITION-CODE: 612 PRINCIPAL?: Yes GENDER: F DOB: 06/26/1962 MAR-STAT: M BIRTH-CITY: Cairo BIRTH-CNTRY: Egypt CITIZ-CNTRY: Egypt RES-CNTRY: Egypt START MEMO POSITION: Presenter and Producer - Egyptian Television END MEMO POSITION: START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 1997 present: Presenter and producer at Egyptian TV. She presents the weekly LIVE show "MASPERO" which has tackled variety social and political issues END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: Presenter and a producer for Tohama Production Company, 1998 Presenter and producer at Dubai Satellite Channel 1993-1998 Reporter/journalist for "Kollenass" magazine 1993 Presenter/reporter at MBC, 1992-1996 Presenter of various types of talks shows, Channel III-ETV, 1986-1990 �00A;END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: START MEMO US-TRAVEL: Once for tourist END MEMO US-TRAVEL: START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: Most Europe END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: START MEMO EDUCATION: B.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics, Ain Shams University, Faculty of Alsun, Spanish Dept. 1983 Radio and TV Diploma, Cairo University, Faculty of Mass Communication. 1989 A special training course in TV production from BBC, 1993 A special training course in TV production from the satellite channel, MTV in London, 1994 END MEMO EDUCATION: START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: none END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: Best Children's program, UNICEF Office London, 1994 Best Presenter of Live Programs from MBC (for three successive years) 1994-1996 Best program "Mapero" from the Egyptian and Radio TV Festival (for raising funds for children with cancer) 2000 Best program for the UN office in Cairo for "Maspero's" special episode on Drug addiction. END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: FIRST-LANG: Arabic ENGL-READ: 3 ENGL-SPEAK: 3 ENGL-COMP: 3 START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: START MEMO VIS-OBJ: END MEMO VIS-OBJ: START MEMO VIS-REC: END MEMO VIS-REC: NOMINATING-OFFICER: information Officer START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: Nominee is a model for empowering women through media and their contribution to the society in all aspects. She has a good chance to hold a position in one of the TV's channels. Her participation in a program related to empowerment of women will help her understand the rights of women and the importance in their participation in the political process. She is considered a young "social/political" influential leader in her professional community. An IV program would educate her on new "democracies" and engage her in dialogues with American influential young leaders to encounter new ideas, which she might be able to apply in her community. Program would also assist in addressing social and economic challenges facing women in general and means to face them. Since she is a media figure, program could enhance her creativity and awareness of the impact of the media on the advancement of women's rights END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: NOM-OFF: SPEAKER?: No NOTIFY-EMB: Yes MEDIA?: No HOME-STAY: No HOME-HOSP?: Yes E-I-TYPE: INTERPRETER NOMINEE-ID: 512 PERSON-ID: 473 BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: EG CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: EG RES-CNTRY-ID: EG FIRST-LANG-ID: AR E-I-TYPE-ID: I NOM-POST-ID: 2875 NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 0 NOM-STATUS: N DS2019-ACTION: 1 DS2019-SUBJECT: 60.0220 SPONS-FUNDS: 0 SPONS-AGENCY1: USGOVT-AGENCY1: US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 USGOVT-AGENCY2: US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 INTL-ORG1: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 INTL-ORG2: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 COMMISSION: 0 OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-CAT: 5 END BIO: END NOMINATION: END FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: ¶3. Post appreciates ECA's assistance with this nomination. GRAY