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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (Arabic: أحمد شهاب الدين; born September 16, 1984) is an American-born Kuwaiti journalist, actor and media personality of Palestinian descent.
Shihab-Eldin started his career at PBS, and also formerly worked at Huffington Post, The New York Times and Vice, and, after joining Al Jazeera English in 2009, was a senior reporter for Al Jazeera Plus from 2017 through 2020. He produced several documentaries for Wide Angle on PBS and others for Vice on HBO.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shihab-Eldin began moving towards other creative pursuits, creating a parody account on the short video platform TikTok and suggesting that he might begin podcasting. He replied, in character, to a video by the Instagram and YouTube star Faiza Rammuny and it went viral, launching this leg of his career. He published his first book, Demanding Dignity, in 2021.
In 2023, he produced and presented an investigative documentary Queer Egypt Under Attack for BBC News focussing on the treatment of LGBT people in Egypt. The same year, he was featured in the Jordanian film The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was awarded in the short film category at the El Gouna Film Festival. He then acted in the 2024 queer short film All the Men I Met but Never Dated, and in the 2025 film Palestine 36, in the role of Maher.
Having previously been an adjunct professor in Digital Media at his alma mater, the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, since December 2025 Shihab-Eldin has been teaching Storytelling and Communication at the University of Bari, Italy.
In 2008, Shihab-Eldin won a Webby Award for master's digital media project, "Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers."
In 2012, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Most Innovative Program in 2012, for creating and co-hosting the Al Jazeera interactive talk show The Stream.
In 2023, Shihab-Eldin won an Amnesty International UK Media Award in Digital Creativity for his BBC documentary Queer Egypt Under Attack, which also earned him a British Journalism Award for Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion.
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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (Arabic: أحمد شهاب الدين; born September 16, 1984) is an American-born Kuwaiti journalist, actor and media personality of Palestinian descent.
Shihab-Eldin started his career at PBS, and also formerly worked at Huffington Post, The New York Times and Vice, and, after joining Al Jazeera English in 2009, was a senior reporter for Al Jazeera Plus from 2017 through 2020. He produced several documentaries for Wide Angle on PBS and others for Vice on HBO.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shihab-Eldin began moving towards other creative pursuits, creating a parody account on the short video platform TikTok and suggesting that he might begin podcasting. He replied, in character, to a video by the Instagram and YouTube star Faiza Rammuny and it went viral, launching this leg of his career. He published his first book, Demanding Dignity, in 2021.
In 2023, he produced and presented an investigative documentary Queer Egypt Under Attack for BBC News focussing on the treatment of LGBT people in Egypt. The same year, he was featured in the Jordanian film The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was awarded in the short film category at the El Gouna Film Festival. He then acted in the 2024 queer short film All the Men I Met but Never Dated, and in the 2025 film Palestine 36, in the role of Maher.
Having previously been an adjunct professor in Digital Media at his alma mater, the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, since December 2025 Shihab-Eldin has been teaching Storytelling and Communication at the University of Bari, Italy.
In 2008, Shihab-Eldin won a Webby Award for master's digital media project, "Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers."
In 2012, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Most Innovative Program in 2012, for creating and co-hosting the Al Jazeera interactive talk show The Stream.
In 2023, Shihab-Eldin won an Amnesty International UK Media Award in Digital Creativity for his BBC documentary Queer Egypt Under Attack, which also earned him a British Journalism Award for Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion.
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