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Al-Majali has won a 2002 Aegis Award for a four-minute music video
about his home nation that he produced for Elon University.
The Aegis Awards
are a video industry competition for peer recognition of outstanding
video productions and non-network TV commercials. "The Jordan Experience"
was honored in the Promotional/ Sales category for its outstanding
production quality by a panel of judges representing industry professionals
from around the USA.
Al-Majali,
a Jordanian student, brought Elon equipment home during the summer
of 2002 to shoot and direct the video, which highlights the beauty
of Jordan by examining the contrasts between its history and its
modernity. He is the recipient of the first King Hussein Scholarship
at Elon.
"[The award]
is a dream come true," said Al-Majali. "This shows us that we can
compete on an international level and be recognized. I thank all
of those who helped in creating this work."
Al-Majali is
also featured as the "talent of the month" in the February
edition of On-Campus magazine, a leading youth publication in Jordan.
To see a clip
from the video, go to:
http://www.elon.edu/academics/communications/qt/jordanc.mov
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