About Mohamed Moawad
Moawad is an Arab American award-winning journalist. He is the 2012 U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) journalist of the year, also he was awarded three times at New York Journalism Festivals and short listed for London AIB (Association for International Broadcasting) Broadcaster of the year award. Moawad has been dealing with Middle East conflicts first hand. While the past years were overwhelmed by violent and non-violent social conflicts which have shaped the present and the future of several societies in North Africa and the Middle East.
As a broadcast journalist at Middle East broadcasting networks (MBN) of BBG, Moawad was working in the midst of the turmoil reporting the voices and the aspirations of those who triggered it as well as the reactions of politicians and military leaders who tried to sustain the status quo. His reporting trips took him to Juba to report the breakaway of South Sudan from Sudan, and Libya at height of armed confrontations between the rebels and Qaddafi forces. Moawad almost camped in Tahrir square, Cairo during the decisive eighteen-day Egyptian Revolution in January and February 2011. Moawad witnessed real conflicts unravel. Moawad is currently a scholar at George Mason University, School for conflict analysis and resolution. He is conducting his researches on peace-building journalism, how the media act in times of conflict. Currently Moawad is the managing editor of Aljazeera news channel based in Doha, Qatar.
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