Straight out of Journalism and Business schools at the American University in Cairo, Nadine joined Egypt Today and Business Today magazines in 2007 as a staff writer. She then proceeded to senior writer and finally contributing editor for both magazines.

 She has received an MA in Media Management from the University of Westminster in London and is now working on her PhD, researching the status of online activists post-January 25.

 Nadine has a special interest in socio-political features and has covered different issues in Egypt, including the culture of addiction, failing urban planning of Heliopolis district and failed educational reforms in Egyptian schools.

 Watch this space for her blog, The Quixotic Cynic, on the trials and tribulations of a cynical idealist in turbulent political and social times.