Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an Arab-American journalist, blogger and Huffington Post columnist. He currently works as a producer/co-host for Al Jazeera English's new show, The Stream
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After graduating with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he began teaching New Media courses there as an Adjunct Professor. Soon after he joing PBS's award-winning international documentary series, WIDE ANGLE, as a multimedia producer.
He has worked as a reporter & producer for the Doha Film Institute and prior to that was with Al Jazeera English as a journalist and The New York Times as a news producer.
In 2008, his Masters Thesis earned him a Webby Award for 'Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers'. He has worked as a new media mentor on News 21, a collaboration of 12 journalism schools experimenting with forms of in-depth investigative reporting about how America is changing.
He is fluent in English and Arabic, and proficient in French and German.
He was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He was recently a news producer for The New York Times and a web producer for the PBS documentary series, Wide Angle.
The Stream
The Stream is a daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. It is branded as a “Web community With a Global TV show”. On television and online The Stream taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news...
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Early life
Ahmed grew up in California, Kuwait, Egypt and Austria.After graduating with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he began teaching New Media courses there as an Adjunct Professor. Soon after he joing PBS's award-winning international documentary series, WIDE ANGLE, as a multimedia producer.
He has worked as a reporter & producer for the Doha Film Institute and prior to that was with Al Jazeera English as a journalist and The New York Times as a news producer.
In 2008, his Masters Thesis earned him a Webby Award for 'Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers'. He has worked as a new media mentor on News 21, a collaboration of 12 journalism schools experimenting with forms of in-depth investigative reporting about how America is changing.
He is fluent in English and Arabic, and proficient in French and German.
Education and career
He holds Bachelor of Science in Communication from Boston University and Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.He was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He was recently a news producer for The New York Times and a web producer for the PBS documentary series, Wide Angle.