Jaafar Abdul Karim

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Jaafar Abdul Karim (* 1981 in Monrovia , Liberia) is a German journalist and TV presenter. He lives in Berlin.

Life

Abdul Karims was born in Monrovia, but grew up in Lebanon (the country of origin of his parents) and Switzerland and moved to Germany in 2001. He studied media informatics at the TU Dresden and at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon and completed a directing course at the London Film Academy.

Activity as a journalist

Abdul Karim worked as an editor and video journalist for the talk show Jugend ohne Grenzen at Deutsche Welle , for which he commuted between Cairo and Berlin and produced current reports for the show at both locations.

He has been the presenter of the talk show Shabab Talk in the Arabic program of Deutsche Welle since 2011 . The show reaches over 8.5 million viewers worldwide. After broadcasting a program on the situation of women in Sudan in which a 28-year-old woman loudly criticized the oppression and harassment of women in North Africa, hate messages, calls for boycotts and open threats of violence emerged in September 2018.

In September 2015, Abdul Karim expanded his activities for television to include various online projects, including a trilingual column for Zeit Online ( Jaafar, shu fi? ) And, since October 2015, Jaafar's video blog at Spiegel Online .

On October 19, 2015, Abdul Karim traveled to Dresden to report on the demonstrations of the Islamophobic Pegida movement that were taking place there . While trying to gather protesters' opinions, Abdul Karim was yelled at and later hit in the neck. The police have not been able to identify the perpetrator.

Since June 2016, Abdul Karim has also moderated the culture magazine Stilbruch in the RBB , for which he was featured in the report Refugee and Arrived? accompanied the life of Syrian refugees who work as artists in Berlin. In December 2016 first appeared on ZDFneo the two-part documentary How sexist we are? , in which Abdul Karim and Dunja Hayali address the forms and origins of sexism . The documentation was produced in the period after the incidents on New Year's Eve in Cologne . In the course of the refugee crisis , Abdul Karim's work as a bilingual journalist was given special mention. He is often described as a mediator between actors in politics and society and the refugees themselves. He is a frequent guest on talk shows and magazines on topics related to the Arab world (including Günther Jauch , Phoenix Runde , Volle Kanne and Stern TV ). On October 14, 2016, Abdul Karim moderated the expert discussion of the then Federal President Joachim Gauck on the subject of integration and the prevention of radicalization. Abdul Karim's journalistic approach is characterized by the fact that he lets people discuss even a polarizing topic. This approach was u. a. cited as the reason for being named Journalist of the Year 2016 in the “Reporter” category by Medium magazine .

Publications

  • Strangers or friends? What the young Arab community thinks, feels and moves Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63390-4 .

honors and awards

  • 2012: Top-10 placement in the journalist of the year election by Medium Magazin.
  • 2016: Journalist of the year in the “Reporter” category, Medium Magazin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Fromm: Reporting on refugees: And Abdul Karim listens . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 15, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 16, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Jaafar Abdul Karim moderates Shabab talk . Deutsche Welle, October 8, 2015
  3. ↑ For him there is no taboo subject at sueddeutsche.de
  4. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Sudan: Death threats after "Shababtalk" | DW | 09/23/2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Violence against journalists at tagesspiegel.de
  6. ↑ These are the journalists of 2016 - Medium Magazin Beta. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The Journalists of 2012 . Medium Magazin (online), accessed December 12, 2016
  8. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2016, list of award winners
personal data
SURNAME Karim, Jaafar Abdul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Monrovia