Ahmed AbdulMageed is an Egyptian-Palestinian aspiring film & media scholar. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 2020 with a BA, double-majoring in Film & Media Studies and Russian Area Studies. At St. Olaf, Ahmed studied and researched various cinema industries and movements, including US, Egyptian, Russian, and Third cinema, as well as coordinated film screenings for the Russian department and the Political Awareness Committee.

In the summer of 2019, he joined Mizna as a Film Festival Intern and returned in the fall of 2020 as the Film Programming Coordinator.

Aside from his interest in film, Ahmed’s second passion is cooking and everything culinary.