Podcast: Voice of AUCians: Importance of Arabic language to AUCians

Interview Questions and Answers (Translated from Arabic to English):

1.	Could you please tell us who Ramy Yassa is?
Interviewee: Ramy Yassa is a young man at the age of 32. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Trade, which he doesn’t like at all. I am a freelance photographer, and I also make some simple, short, documentary-like videos. I love my career and the lifestyle I chose very much.

2.	What did you find interesting in photography generally?
Interviewee: I have loved photography since I was a child. I had a small camera since I was in primary school, which my grandparents gave to me as a gift, but its output was, of course, not that good. I was once in Luxor and Aswan with my friends in First Secondary grade I think, and my photos were very bad because the camera was not good, so I decided to get a good one when I return and start taking good photos, because I love archiving these moments.

3.	How did you manage to turn your hobby into your career?
Interviewee: I wasn’t intending to work in photography and make it my career. That was the farthest idea for me. Throughout my study period, I was planning to be a Math teacher. That was my favorite subject, but with time, I felt that I love archiving and recording. Since I was a child, I have loved recording and saving things, such as TV programs, and capturing these moments. With time, I felt that I would love working in this field and I took the decision of studying photography and continuing in this field before I went to university.

4.	What incident(s) do you think was a turning point in your life?
Interviewee: One of the most situations that made me very happy and influenced my life is when I had a small digital camera that I used and took portraits with, some people and my friends got bored and their photos were not good, because the camera didn’t have a zoom lens, so I photographed their faces from a close distance, which made them look bad, so they got bored and told me not to photograph them. Once I got a professional camera and started studying this issue, people told me to come and photograph them. This was a situation that influenced my life a lot, because I felt that people wanted me to photograph them after they totally refused that, so this situation affected me a lot, because the more I studied and the better output I got, the more I made people love me photographing them, and this made a difference.

5.	Which photograph do you think is your best and that you will never forget?
Interviewee: The best photograph I took was of my grandparents. I remember that it was their 50th marriage anniversary. This photo’s memory will always be great to me. As much as I take beautiful photos after that, this photo is of great value to me.

6.	Finally, what are your future dreams in the field of photography?
Interviewee: My dreams mostly lean towards videos, documentaries and things that discuss existential issues more than just photos. I see that archiving a moment is important and good, and I will continue in it, but what I dream of is that I start analyzing and studying situations and events in our life, either as Egyptians or as humans, and in our history. Also, I would love making short films or videos that analyze or discuss such issues.

Interview with Egyptian Freelance Photographer and Short Film Maker Ramy Yassa

Area where the Nat Sounds are recorded: School of Science and Engineering Building at the American University in Cairo (New Cairo Campus).

0:00-0:05: A fountain.
0:06-0:10: Sounds of a chemist working in a laboratory.
0:11-0:16: Sounds of people climbing up the stairs.
0:16-0:22: Sound of machinery.
0:23-0:28: Sound of a tuning fork in a laboratory.
0:29-0:36: Sound of a chemical reaction in a laboratory.

The sounds are recorded by a Zoom recorder.

Credits:
Professor: Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Producer: @user-803900277

Nat Sound Exercise - Armen

On this episode of the Rundown, host Armen Kiritlian and producer Mahmoud Khaled discuss current events & news in Education and Sports.

Topics discussed on the Roundtable discussion:
1- Liverpool defeats Bournemouth 2-1 in the Premier League:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51685405

2- Italy to close all schools as deaths due to coronavirus rise
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51743697

3- Chaos and confusion as Italian sports minister calls for Serie A suspension amid coronavirus outbreak
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/08/football/serie-a-coronavirus-parma-spt-intl/index.html

For the interview segment, Armen Kiritlian interviewed Dr. Inas Mazhar of the Department of Journalism and Mass Commuication of AUC, about the quarter finals of this season's CAF Champions League.

Credits:
Music: Sleepless night by Anitek
Image taken by Mahmoud Khaled
Professor: Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Host: Armen Kiritlian @user-803900277 
Producer: Mahmoud Khaled @work-cv
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18E3zx0WE1oQvJWc9wDC6adgEGsuw1oAXHkCqF9MLbMU/edit?usp=sharing

The Rundown, Group 3 || Epi 3

I am Armen Kiritlian, a senior student at the American University in Cairo. My major is Communication and Media Arts.
This project is an audio diary and it is for the Audio Production course (JRMC 4460) taught by Prof. Kim Fox.

Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuheypgSuJoaj5L1IOUH593Q0rQ3AXivKWz-DeZdIG4/edit?usp=sharing

Photo: Me on AUC's New Cairo campus. Taken by Ms. Audrey Lodes from AUC's scholarships office.

SoundCloud accounts:
Professor: Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Me: @user-803900277

My University Life

This project is a Nat Sound Essay for the Audio Production course (JRMC4460) at the American University in Cairo, taught by Prof. Kim Fox. The area where the Nat Sounds are recorded is the School of Science and Engineering Building at the American University in Cairo (New Cairo Campus). The sounds are recorded by a Zoom recorder.

Credits:
Professor: Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Producer: @user-803900277

Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rmy1KIHNjeHY7DmTpgnRNIs2dD_qn2Mp0os-6gBHQVM/edit?usp=sharing

A Walk through SSE

This audio feature is on my mother, Mrs. Sevan Khatchadourian, who has loved learning since she was in school, and until now, at her age of 58, still loves to learn new things in any subject. After finishing her Egyptian high school, Thanaweya Amma, through the scientific branch, she went to Alexandria University and graduated from the Faculty of Commerce in 1983.

This audio feature was produced by Armen Kiritlian for the Audio Production course at the American University in Cairo, taught by Prof. Kim Fox in the Spring semester of two-thousand-and-twenty. Special thanks to my mom Mrs. Sevan Khatchadourian and my older sister Ms. Maral Kiritlian for their interviews. Music is “Dreamland” and “Waterfall” by Aakash Gandhi from YouTube’s audio library.

Script:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vWd4xtGoXmTBhNk9oi9ZEt8_q7zgsytdhzZA1jRvoPE/edit?usp=sharing

The feature, its script and the oral history interviews with their scripts on the American University in Cairo's Digital Archive and Research Repository (DAR):
http://dar.aucegypt.edu/handle/10526/5871

Credits:
Professor: Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Producer: @user-803900277

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