Aktham Suliman

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Aktham Suliman (* 1970 in Damascus , Syria ) is a Syrian journalist. He was Germany correspondent for the Arab television station Al Jazeera .

Suliman moved from Syria to Berlin in 1989 and began studying computer science at the Free University of Berlin in 1990 . He switched to communication studies with a focus on journalism and studied Islamic studies and political science. He gained his first practical journalistic experience as an author for Arab magazines and for the FU's university radio. From 1998 to 2002, after an internship, he worked as a permanent freelancer for the Arabic program of Deutsche Welle . From February 2002 to October 2012 he was a correspondent for the Arab news channel Al Jazeera in Berlin. He also reported from European countries such as Poland, Austria, Hungary and Romania. In October 2012 he left the station and in an article dated December 11, 2012 on faz.net (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), he accused the Qatari government of the creeping and now massive (foreign) political influence on the station in the direction of positive reporting since 2004 in favor of "Muslim Brotherhood" groups "which Qatar supports in all Arab countries"

“The Al Jazeera news channel was committed to the truth. Now it is being bent. It's about politics, not journalism. For the reporters, that means it's time to go. [...] The downward trend between 2004 and 2011 was creeping, subliminal and very slow, but with a catastrophic end. "

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  1. ↑ a b c Aktham Suliman: Forget what you saw! In: FAZ.net . December 11, 2012, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sonja Pohlmann: For Al Jazeera in Berlin. In: tagesspiegel.de. May 17, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Suliman, Aktham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus