Mirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk is director of communications for the Economic Research Forum (ERF), and a nonresident fellow at the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. She was formerly associate director for publishing operations at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Press and the publisher of The Daily News Egypt, the country’s only independent English- language daily newspaper. Mabrouk has over 20 years of experience in journalism.

She founded The Daily News Egypt (formerly The Daily Star Egypt) in May of 2005 and it rapidly became the leading English newspaper in the country. Mabrouk wrote regularly, with her opinion columns generally being the paper’s top-emailed article during the week of their publication.

In 1995, she was asked to found Business Today, becoming the country’s youngest editor of a national magazine. It went on to become the top independent business magazine in the region. She was formerly an editor for Arab Media and Society, an online journal on the media’s role in Arab and Muslim societies published by AUC’s Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research, and the Middle East Centre at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.

She has served on the boards of the Egyptian Chapter of Young Arab Leaders, a regional non-profit organization dedicated to development, and the non-governmental organization Masr Habibti. She has been involved with the Aspen Institute (Washington DC), the Consumer Unity Trust Society (Jaipur, India.), and the Brains Trust at the Evian Group, a trade-advocacy think tank based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mabrouk has served as a board member of the Egyptian Chapter of Young Arab Leaders, a regional non-profit organization dedicated to development. She has also served on the board of a non- governmental organization called Masr Habibti. She is a member of the Brains Trust at the Evian Group, a fair-trade advocacy think tank based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is involved with the Aspen Institute as a member of the Arab-U.S. Media Forum.

Mabrouk has produced work for CNN, BBC, NBC ABC and Reuters Television. While working in television, she interviewed and filmed leading political figures of the time, including Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Nelson Mandela, King Hussein of Jordan, Ezer Weizman, and Boutros Boutros Ghali. Mabrouk graduated from AUC in 1989 with a B.A. in Mass Communication, and a year later she obtained her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the same university.

| 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 | 202.797.6000 | fax 202.797.6004 | brookings.edu