Mohamed Amjahid

Mohamed Amjahid, 2015

Mohamed Amjahid ( Arabic محمد أمجاهد, * 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a journalist of Moroccan origin working in Germany .

Life

Mohamed Amjahid was born to Moroccan guest workers, the father worked as an industrial worker, the mother as a cleaner. At the age of seven he moved with his parents and two siblings to Morocco , where he attended school. At the age of nineteen he returned to Germany and studied political science at the Free University of Berlin . In 2013 he helped Jan Ross to write his essay Are the pious dumb? Why class arrogance against political Islam endangers democracy . After a traineeship at Tagesspiegel from 2015 to 2016, he worked as editor of Zeitmagazin from 2016 and from 2018 as editor of the politics department of Zeit . He has been working as a freelance journalist since 2020. He lives in Berlin .

In his book Unter Weißen , published in 2017, he addresses the different forms of everyday racism to which people of color are exposed in a white majority population (being white ). In it he uses the term “ Biodeutsch ” to illustrate their privileges to people without a migration background.

Awards

• 2013: Åke Blomström Prize of the International Feature Conference (IFC ) organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for the radio feature Greetings to my beloved Syria , published on the Kulturradio des Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).
• 2014: 3rd place KAUSA Media Prize in the Text category for The Amjahid Files , published in Der Tagesspiegel .
• 2014: Alexander Rhomberg Prize for Young Journalism
• 2017: Media award of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (with Gero von Randow ) in the category magazine for longing without a place? No way , published in Die Zeit .
• 2017: German Reporter Award in the Investigation category for an attack is to be expected
• 2018: Nannen Prize in the category Best Investigative Achievement for One Attack is to be expected

Fonts

• Among whites. What it means to be privileged . Munich, Hanser Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25472-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Mohamed Amjahid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website
• Profile at Hanser

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Zeit No. 28, July 4, 2013, p. 3.
2. ↑ Mohamed Amjahid. Retrieved March 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ABA 2013 - Winners Ake Blomstrom Award, message on the IFC website from May 22, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2018 (English)
4. ↑ Prize winners, ( Memento of the original dated February 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the KAUSA Media Prize, accessed on July 30, 2018
5. ↑ Bayerische Landeskirche awards media prize (PDF), press release of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria from May 30, 2017, accessed on July 30, 2018
6. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: German Reporter Award 2017: Four SPIEGEL stories awarded - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved April 3, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Nannen Prize 2018 , nominees and award winners