Souad Mekhennet

Souad Mekhennet at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Souad Mekhennet (* 1978 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author. She was and is a journalist for The New York Times , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the ZDF , previously also for the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Hessischer Rundfunk as well as the newspaper Die Woche . She has also worked for the ARD studio in Morocco and in Hamburg for the Hamburger Morgenpost , Stern and Die Zeit . She has been with The Washington Post for some time . After September 11, 2001, she reported on the conflicts in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Life

Mekhennet is the daughter of Turkish - Moroccan parents and grew up as the third of four children in the Nordend district of Frankfurt . She spent three years of her childhood with her grandmother in Morocco.

She attended the Henri Nannen School for Journalism in Hamburg and studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

job

Mekhennet was one of the two journalists who published the first article on the Khaled el-Masri case .

Together with Michael Moss , she was able to speak to leaders of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb about the motives of the jihadists .

She is a co-author of The Children of Jihad and Islam .

Together with Nicholas Kulish she researched the life of the concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim for years . The research revealed that the SS doctor Aribert Heim, who allegedly died in 1992, had fled to Cairo and lived there under a false name. Mekhennet smuggled Heim's briefcase out of Egypt at risk of death in order to use the documents it contained to prove that Heim lived in the Egyptian capital under the false name of Tarek Hussein Farid.

Awards

Souad Mekhennet, 2018 when receiving the Ludwig Börne Prize in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

• 2012: German television award for the documentary 9/11, together with Elmar Theveßen
• 2018: Ludwig Börne Prize
• 2018: Special prize of the Nannen Prize
• 2019: Simon Wiesenthal Center , "International Leadership Award"

Book publications

• Souad Mekhennet, Michael Hanfeld : Islam , Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-401-06220-4 .
• Souad Mekhennet, Claudia Sautter , Michael Hanfeld: The children of jihad. The new generation of Islamist terror in Europe , Piper, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-25112-9 . Review in time .
• Souad Mekhennet, Nicholas Kulish : The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim , Doubleday, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-385-53243-3 (English).
  • German edition: Dr. Death - The long hunt for the most wanted Nazi criminal , CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67261-3 .
• Souad Mekhennet: I was told to come alone. My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad , Henry Holt & Co, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-627798976 .
  • German edition: Only if you come alone. A reporter behind the fronts of Jihad , CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71167-1 .

Web links

Commons : Souad Mekhennet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Souad Mekhennet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Souad Mekhennet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Souad Mekhennet at perlentaucher.de
• Recent and archived news articles by Souad Mekhennet of The New York Times
• My night with Cem. A train with the green member of the Bundestag Özdemir through bars and clubs in Istanbul. In: DIE ZEIT, 43/2001. Retrieved on September 9, 2011 (Corrigendum: the Çubuklu Hayal Kahvesi is located in Beykoz , Topkapı and Ayasofya, but in Eminönü in Europe). 
• Are you also reaching your limits? , Long interview with Mekhennet on Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 21, 2015 (mp3)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Souad Mekhennet: Only if you come alone. A reporter behind the fronts of jihad. CHBeck Verlag, Munich 2017, p. 365
2. ↑ Do you just want something to do with jihadists? , Die Welt, December 29, 2014
3. ↑ German's Claim of Kidnapping Brings Investigation of US Link , Don van Natta Jr. and Souad Mekhennet, NYT January 9, 2005, accessed February 10, 2011
4. ^ Inside the Jihad: Coverage by Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet , The New York Times, 2007–2008, accessed February 10, 2011
5. ↑ Do you just want something to do with jihadists? , Die Welt, December 29, 2014
6. ^ Ludwig Börne Foundation
7. ↑ CHBeck author Souad Mekhennet receives the special award from the STERN editor-in-chief , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on April 11, 2018
8. ↑ International Leadership Award: Simon Wiesenthal Center honors Souad Mekhennet . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 19, 2019]).
9. ↑ Michael Schwelien time 42/2006 [1]