Shady Arafa

Shady Arafa is Operations Manager of the Alexandria Trust. From 2002 to 2011, Shady was Special Aide to the Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), Dr Ismail Serageldin, with whom he worked from the opening of the institution through its development as a major Egyptian and international facility. In 2008, he left the BA for one year to acquire some exposure to professional private sector PR work in the Gulf, but returned to the BA to work with its Director for another stretch of three years. He subsequently came to London as a Chevening scholar to earn a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Westminster, completed in September 2012. Shady is a UK resident and lives in London.