California-born Ahmed Shihab-Eldin holds a master of science
in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and still
works as an adjunct professor for the institution, teaching digital media. Of
Palestinian descent and with Kuwaiti parents, he is a lifelong expat, having
been raised in Kuwait, Egypt, the US and Austria.
He started his journalism career in the US as a news
producer with the New York Times in 2008. He then worked at Qatar’s Al Jazeera
English for six months. Also in Doha, he worked as a reporter and producer for
the Doha Film Institute, during which time he helped launch the first Doha
Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2011, Shihab-Eldin created, produced and co-hosted Al
Jazeera English’s social media show ‘The Stream’, an interactive talk show that
earned him an Emmy nomination for Most Innovative Program in 2012 for an
episode about Bahrain’s political crisis.
He has also blogged for the Huffington Post. His
Master’s digital media project earned him a Webby Award for “Defining Middle
Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers”. He is currently a
correspondent and producer at VICE Media in the US.
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