Name Souad Mekhennet Role Journalist | Books Islam | |
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Awards Deutscher Fernsehpreis - Best Documentary Similar People Nicholas Kulish, Aribert Heim, Elmar Thevesen, Adolf Storms, Malika El Aroud | ||
Souad mekhennet und tom koenigs erwartungen der menschen nach der revolution
Souad Mekhennet (born 1978) is a German journalist and author of Turkish-Moroccan descent who has written or worked for The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and German television channel ZDF.
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- Souad mekhennet und tom koenigs erwartungen der menschen nach der revolution
- Conversation with journalist souad mekhennet i was told to come alone
- Early life and education
- Journalism
- Fellowships
- Books
- References
Conversation with journalist souad mekhennet i was told to come alone
Early life and education
Mekhennet was born in 1978, the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father; she grew up principally in Germany, but spent some years of her childhood in Morocco. She attended the Henri Nannen School for Journalism in Hamburg and the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Journalism
Since 9/11, Mekhennet has covered conflicts and terrorist attacks in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. She was one of two Times reporters who published the first story on Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen, who was detained, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and allegedly tortured by the CIA for several months. She also worked on the series Inside the Jihad, published between 2007 and 2008, in which she and her colleague Michael Moss interviewed various jihadist leaders, including the head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. In February 2015, she was the lead reporter of a Washington Post story that first revealed the true identity of the ISIS militant known as "Jihadi John".
Fellowships
Mekhennet currently holds fellowships with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and New America.
Books
She is the co-author of two books in German: Islam (2006) and Die Kinder des Dschihad: Die neue Generation des islamistischen Terrors (2008); and one in English, with Nicholas Kulish: The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim (2014). Her memoir, I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, was published in 2017.
Books
