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23.03.2021
13 Minuten
In this podcast episode, AGYA Co-President Professor Maha Nasr
from Egypt and AGYA Steering Committee member Professor Marc
Ringel from Germany talk about the current Coronavirus vaccines
and how to stay healthy during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Maha Nasr is Associate Professor for Pharmaceutics and Industrial
Pharmacy at Ain Shams University in Egypt. Marc Ringel is
Professor for Economics at Nuertingen-Geislingen University in
Germany.
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06.11.2020
24 Minuten
In this podcast episode, two AGYA alumnae from media
studies, Professor Hanan Badr from Egypt and Professor Carola
Richter from Germany, exchange views on the media coverage
surrounding COVID-19 and the role of science journalism in the
dissemination of reliable and credible information in
society.
Hanan Badr is Associate Professor for Mass Communication at
the Gulf University of Science and Technology (GUST) in Kuwait,
and is also affiliated with Cairo University in Egypt. Carola
Richter is Professor for International Communication at Freie
Universität Berlin in Germany.
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29.09.2020
33 Minuten
In this podcast episode, AGYA member Dr. Luise Fischer from Germany
and AGYA alumnus Professor Ahmad El-Guindy from Egypt share their
thoughts on a possible second wave of COVID-19 and the role of
scholars in society in times of crisis.
Luise Fischer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fraunhofer
Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy in
Leipzig. Ahmad El-Guindy is Professor of Mathematics at Cairo
University.
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26.08.2020
35 Minuten
In this podcast episode, AGYA member Dr. Amro Ali from Egypt and
AGYA alumnus Dr. Kalman Graffi from Germany discuss Coronavirus
warning apps, delving into their advantages, disadvantages and
effectiveness from both a technological and ethical point of
view.
Amro Ali is a lecturer in Political Sociology at the American
University in Cairo, while Kalman Graffi is a Principal Scientist
at the Honda Research Institute Europe located in Offenbach am
Main.
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06.07.2020
17 Minuten
In this podcast episode, AGYA members Professor Dr. Zeina
Hobaika from Lebanon and Dr. Konstantin Klein from Germany
discuss lessons learned from plague epidemics in ancient times as
well as the benefits of using modern software and 3D simulations
to better understand how COVID-19 behaves and how it might react
to certain treatments.
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Über diesen Podcast
Welcome to the podcast ‘AGYA goes viral’! We here at the
Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) invite
you to join us as we explore the diverse implications of COVID-19
for science and society at large. In each episode, Arab and German
AGYA members and alumni from different scientific disciplines come
together to discuss research on and amidst the Coronavirus
pandemic. As the current situation challenges our societies in
unprecedented ways, we hope this platform will serve a space for
dialogue and lead to inspiring exchange. The Arab-German Young
Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) provides this podcast as
a public service. The authors/speakers remain solely responsible
for the contents and recommendations provided in the podcast and do
not reflect positions of AGYA or any of its funding partners.
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