Egyptian-American journalist Ayman Mohyeldin is a Los
Angeles-based foreign correspondent and news anchor for NBC News. He previously
worked for Al Jazeera and CNN, and was reportedly one of the first Western
journalists permitted to report on the trial of the deposed former president of
Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
Mohyeldin was born in Cairo to an Egyptian father and
Palestinian mother and grew up in Egypt until his parents emigrated to the US
when he was five years old.
He studied at the American University in Washington, DC,
earning a Bachelor’s in International Relations and later a Master’s in
International Politics with a focus on peace and conflict resolution. His
graduate thesis, entitled ‘The News Media Paradigm in the War on Terrorism,’
was accepted by the International Association of Media Researcher’s Conference
in Barcelona, Spain, in 2002.
He began his journalism career at NBC, working as a desk
assistant in the Washington, DC bureau. He then moved to Iraq and worked as a
foreign news producer with CNN from 2003 to 2005. He later covered the 2011
Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring protests for Al Jazeera English.
More recently, Mohyeldin has become the host of
digital show ‘Road Map’ on Shift, and is a self-proclaimed keen foodie and
photographer.
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