Ahmed Mansour (journalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ahmed Mansour (journalist)

Egyptian television presenter

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1962

Place of Birth: Egypt

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Egypt, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Ahmed Mansour (journalist)

  • Ahmed Mansour is an Egyptian journalist, television presenter, television host, and interviewer on Al Jazeera since 1997, and writer.
  • He is one of Al Jazeera's prominent journalists.
  • He presents Bela Hodod (??? ????, Arabic for "without borders"), an Arab live television talk show from Cairo since 1999, which airs on Al Jazeera Channel weekly.
  • He also presents the program Shahed Ala Al-Asr.
  • In 2009, he published the book Inside Fallujah: the Unembedded Story.He was born in the city of Samanoud, in Egypt, and graduated from the Mansoura University, with a bachelor's degree in arts.
  • His career started as a war correspondent.
  • He covered the war in Afghanistan between 1987 and 1990, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994 and the war in Iraq in 2004.
  • He now leads two talk shows which are broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV: in addition to "Without Frontiers", he also presents the program "Witness on the Age".
  • Both programs are widely viewed in the Arab World.
  • Apart from his skills as interviewer in the programs he conducts, Ahmed Mansour has become famous because of his outspoken political views. Mansour has openly criticized the current al-Sisi government.
  • He has also criticised the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • Mansour was criticized on social media after he interviewed the leader of al-Nusra Front, and a Syrian pilot captive held by the al-Nusra Front.In August 2014, Cairo's criminal court accused Mansour of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011; Mansour denied the charges, and Al Jazeera said the accusations were false.
  • Mansour was convicted in absentia in October and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
  • Al Jazeera called the ruling unjust, and an effort to silence journalists.
  • Interpol refused to issue a warrant.On 20 June 2015, Mansour was arrested at Berlin Tegel Airport and held by German police at the request of the Egyptian government, provoking demonstrations in Germany until his release.
  • Reporters Without Borders called Mansour's detention "Egypt's terrible revenge against journalists that cross the regime," and stated that Berlin was threatening to put itself "at the service of a dictatorial regime." Mansour was released on 22 June.
  • According to Hans-Eduard Busemann of Reuters, "Mansour's case has put Germany in an awkward position as it tries to balance business interests and human rights."

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