Halim Hosny

Halim Hosny (* 1958 in Wiesbaden ) is a German journalist .

Career

Between 1981 and 1988, Hosny studied political science , journalism and ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , which he completed with a master's degree. While still a student, he began reporting for ZDF, first from the Hessen State Studio, then from 1989 from the new federal states.

From 1993 he worked as a war and crisis reporter for ZDF. Between 1993 and 1995 he reported from the conflict areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia for the editorial office of Heute-Journal . Later he was a member of the reporter pool he co-founded in the editor-in-chief of ZDF in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania , Lebanon , Iraq , Israel , Egypt , Turkey , Hungary , Romania , Namibia , Rwanda , Congo and Northern Ireland . Studio representatives took him to Tel Aviv , Cairo and London .

Between 1999 and 2007, Hosny was part of the main foreign policy department. In addition to his work as a reporter, he worked as an editor and head of the service for the show auslandsjournal . During this time, reports such as the massacre in the desert sand (about traces of horror in Iraq), In the kingdom of a thousand princes (accompanied a group of pilgrims to Medina and Mecca), Just get away! and that will work out (two films about German emigrants).

In January 2008 he was appointed head of the ZDF correspondent office in Istanbul. Halim Hosny's reporting area includes Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan . Until December 31, 2011 he was the head of the ZDF correspondent office in Istanbul . Luc Walpot has been his successor since January 2012 . Hosny moved to the main editorial office for Politics and Current Affairs.

Web links

• ZDF foreign journal portrait Halim Hosny
• Halim Hosny at ZDF
• ZDF yearbook 2011
• Walpot goes to Istanbul