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Muhammed muheisen on covering syria
Muhammed Muheisen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and the Chief Photographer for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Associated Press.
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Biography & Career
Muhammed Muheisen was born in Jerusalem in 1981, and is a Jordanian National.
Muheisen has worked for the Associated Press since the age of 19. He joined the AP in 2001 and has degrees in journalism and political science. He covered many events in the Middle East: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the funeral of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Muheisen has also traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, China, France and South Africa for various assignments throughout his career.
Awards
Muheisen won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2005 with his team at the Associated Press. Other photographers on the team included Brennan Linsley, Anja Niedringhaus, Murad Sezer, Jim MacMillan, and Khalid Mohammed. The team won for its yearlong coverage of combat in Iraqi cities.
In 2007, Muheisen was awarded the picture of the year in the Pictures of the Year International competition. Muheisen image was chosen as image of the year in Local Testimony exhibition in Tel Aviv in 2008.
In 2013, Muheisen won the Pulitzer Prize again with his team at the Associated Press for Breaking News Photography. Other photographers on the team included Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Rodrigo Abd and Khalil Hamra . The team won for its coverage of the civil war in Syria.
Muheisen also won the Time Magazine Best Wire Photographer of 2013 Award, and the Associated Press' Oliver S. Gramling Journalism Award in 2014. The AP announcement about the award said, "Muheisen captures the loss and hope in day-to-day life in Pakistan and conflict zones throughout the region."
Muheisen's work about life in war has been exhibited at the Visa pour L'Image french photo festival and his work focusing on refugees was in the Festival des Libertes in Brussels.