Yara Issa
Ahmed Al-Ghandour presenter Ahmed Al-Ghandour has reached the final list of nominees for the IBC Young Entrepreneurs Award, which concluded on Tuesday in Amsterdam.
This category recognizes new talent that has an impact through passion, ambition and commitment, and has the potential to be future media leaders.
"This is a great honor for me to be nominated for this prestigious international award," said Ahmed al-Ghandour. "I am very happy to see our work in Duhail making a real difference."
"I myself have learned a lot from the experience of preparing and presenting the program, and I feel a growing responsibility towards millions of Arabic-speaking young people, who may not have other opportunities to learn about modern and complex scientific theories and phenomena."
Beginnings and path of ascent
Ahmed El-Ghandour, born in 1994, studied at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, American University in Cairo.
He launched his own YouTube channel in 2014, began recording videos using a personal camera in his room, and his program was widely accepted and later signed - in 2017 - a work contract with "AJ + Arabi" affiliated to Al Jazeera Media Network.
Within a short time, Al-Duhayh became a pioneering program in the Arab world. His introduction, along with a team of producers, illustrators and editors, introduces concepts such as artificial intelligence and sequential data, as well as controversial topics such as cosmology.
In more than 160 episodes with more than 250 million views, Al-Duhayeh has become one of the most successful and successful programs of AG + channels in the Arabic-speaking region, where many young people have difficulty accessing quality education. High quality.
Despite the success achieved by Duhayeh, he was not spared criticism. After his episode "Ya Mahasin Al Sadaf", he was exposed to a wide campaign on social media platforms and some accused him of "promoting atheism."
High viewership
So far, the number of followers is increasing with the number of episodes in Al-Duhah program reaching almost 2 million views per episode, with more than 3.3 million subscribers and more than 250 million views in total.
Al-Duhayh's high viewership rates on both YouTube and Facebook can be traced to two reasons. Clearly follow through the comments on his episodes.
The second relates to the topics he chooses and how to link them in a way that is far from the educational curriculum.
The International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) is an annual international fair for media, entertainment and technology, created by six leading bodies in the world. In 2018, the conference recorded over 55,000 participants from 150 countries and more than 1,700 technology vendors made presentations.
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