Karim El-Gawhary
Karim El-Gawhary ( Arabic كريم الجوهري, DMG Karīm el-Goharī ; * November 26, 1963 in Munich ) is a German-Egyptian journalist.
Life
Karim El-Gawhary was born in Munich as the son of an Egyptian and a German. He studied Islamic Studies and Politics with a focus on the Middle East at the Free University of Berlin . The journalist has been working as a correspondent in Cairo since 1991.
He writes for German-language newspapers, u. a. taz (Berlin), Die Presse (Vienna), the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , the Stuttgarter Nachrichten , Badische Zeitung (Freiburg), Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf), Die Rheinpfalz (Ludwigshafen / Rhein) and the Bonner General-Anzeiger .
El-Gawhary worked for ARD for five years as a correspondent representative in Cairo. Since 2004 he has headed the Middle East office of ORF in Cairo.
El-Gawhary is a member of the professional association Freischreiber and belongs to the network of freelance German-speaking correspondents "weltreporter.net".
Private
El-Gawhary is the father of three children.
Books
He is the author of four books:
- Everyday life in Arabic - close-ups from Cairo to Baghdad (Vienna, 2009)
- Diary of the Arab Revolution (Vienna, 2011)
- Woman power in Arabic (Vienna, 2013)
- On the run (together with Mathilde Schwabeneder , Vienna, 2015)
Awards
In 2011 he was honored with the Concordia Prize for Freedom of the Press. In 2011, 2013 and 2018 he was honored as Journalist of the Year in Austria in the Foreign Policy category, and in 2013 he also received the main prize. In 2016 he was awarded the Leopold Kunschak Press Prize, and in 2018 the Axel Corti Prize .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karim El-Gawhary in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karim El-Gawhary. Portrait on kundendienst.orf.at.
- Karim El-Gawhary's page on Weltreporter.net.
- ORF Cairo office Page about El-Gawhary's work as a foreign correspondent for ORF
Individual evidence
- ↑ A tough job: Foreign correspondent in tv-media from February 9, 2011, accessed on October 5, 2012
- ↑ Karim El-Gawhary on Weltreporter.net. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ^ Works by Karim El-Gawhary published by Kremayr & Scheriau. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ “The Journalists of the Year” , accessed on October 5, 2012.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Leopold Kunschak Prize to El-Gawhary and Seinitz . Article dated November 11, 2016, accessed November 17, 2016.
- ↑ orf.at: Axel Corti Prize for Karim El Gawhary . Article dated April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El-Gawhary, Karim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Egyptian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |