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Amr Ellissy is an Egyptian television and radio celebrity, who is working as a journalist. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo university. He also graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts, Direction Section.

Careers

Before being a TV presenter, he was the executive director of the London-based MBC, a private Arabian TV channel in 1991. Afterwards, he started his preparation and presentation of a weekly TV political program on Egyptian State Television called "Ekhterak" in 2001, which is a political documentary program. Some of its episodes were concerned with a historical documentation of important world events. The program was awarded "Best viewed" three times, since it began.
He started other political interactive programs at other private channels (besides his own on Egypt State TV) as the OTV Channel and the AlSaa Lebanese Channel, where he is now preparing and presenting a weekly talk show called Moagha=Confrontation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a weekly liberal Egyptian Newspaper called Elkhamis, which has been issued since 1996.
Ellissy is also a member of a number of Non governmental organizations, and is the chairman of the "Nahdet Misr" society. Currently, he is a councilor at the Culture and tourism committee of the Egyptian Parliament.
Currently, he is presenting a weekly radio program at the Egyptian State Radio Middle East Broadcasting Channel. He has launched his famous program " Wahed Mn Elnass " [ One of the people] ,April , 2009 .. at Dream television channel[ a private t.v. Egyptian channel] , which tackles public issues , mainly concerned with problems of marginalized and poor population , in a trial to foster media tools in raising public awareness and improving the living conditions of his society .
He is also a lecturer at the Higher Institute of Art Criticism and the International Academy of Media Science.

Prize

Ellissy has been awarded the high-ranked prize of "Mostafa & Ali Amin for Journalism, 2008". During the same year, he established his own prize to be dedicated, on a yearly basis, to the distinguished student of Faculty of Media Science, at Cairo University. He has been awarded the prestigious IPCD unesco prize [International Program for Development of communication] ,for the year 2009.. for his programme {one of the People} , which he presents and scriptwrites it at dream T.V. channel , Egypt

Author

Ellissy is the author of 3 books, and recently, he is preparing to issue his investigative documentary book about the mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, the former Egyptian president secretary for information. Some of his interviews and investigative documentaries are uploaded on YouTube, under the title of "Egypt Journalist Amr Ellissy".