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JUNE 13, 2000 Yosri Fouda, Al-Jazeeras award-winning
investigative correspondent and London bureau chief, was presented with the Kamal
Adham Award for Outstanding Professional Performance at tonights annual awards
dinner.
In making the award, Adham Center Director S. Abdallah Schleifer
noted that this award is rarely given: This will be only the third award of its
kind in twelve years. He said later that it was given to Fouda for his work in
particular as an investigative journalist, writer, producer, and host of the award-winning
show Top Secret.
Fouda graduated from the Adham Center in 1992, and immediately
started teaching intensive editing courses tailored for professionals. He was
the first Egyptian to be selected by the German foundation Fredreich Nauman to
head a training workshop series for Egypt TV's presenters, producers, directors,
camera operators and editors.
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Fouda joined the first team which established the BBC World
Service TV in Arabic in 1994 as senior roving reporter. For political reasons,
the BBC Arabic TV lasted only two years but by then Fouda had acquired vast field
experience having covered the war in Bosnia, the peace process in the Middle East
and various conflicts in Africa. He moved on to the Associated Press TV headquarter
in London, where in 1996 he co-founded the first and only Middle East desk of
its kind, providing Arab TV channels with tailored news reports and syndicated
TV wires. At the same time he helped build the infrastructure of the London-based
Arab News Network (ANN).
Fouda joined the first team of Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel
as UK and Western Europe Correspondent. A year later he had already secured an
independent production office for in London for Al-Jazeera, of which he is now
the bureau chief. This office currently puts up four live business bulletins,
extensive political coverage of Western Europe, the weekly inter-active chat show
More than One Opinion and the monthly investigative documentary series of Top
Secret, which Fouda researches, edits and presents.
Al-Jazeera won its first official recognition when the very
first program of Top Secret came back with the prize at the 1998 Cairo Radio
& TV Production Festival. A more recent program from this series made headlines
across the Arab world when Fouda managed against all odds to board a Boeing 767
simulator to prove the sceintific invalidity of the suicide theory in the last
October Egyptair crash.
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 Yosri
Fouda reporting from Bosnia
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