Samir Khader is the Head of Programs and Current Affairs at

Sky News Arabia Sky News Arabia (stylised as Sky News عربية) ( ar, سكاي نيوز عربية ') is an Arabic 24-hour rolling news channel broadcast mainly in the Middle East and North Africa. It is a joint venture between UK-based Sky Group and Abu Dha ...

, after having been the Program Editor & Head of Output of

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

-based broadcaster

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

. He comes from

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. He has degrees in

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...

and

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

from universities in Grenoble and

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. Samir Khader began his career as a TV journalist in 1979 on French television. He worked for many years in Jordan as a

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the tes ...

before joining ''Al Jazeera'' and then Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi. He is well known for being featured in the

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

'' Control Room'', when he was a senior

producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...

Quotes

''"Between us, if I am offered a job with FOX NEWS, I would take it - to change the arab nightmare into the American dream....I still have that dream."'' ''- Control Room,'' interview with Samir Khader

References

External links

''Counter Currents'' - Al-Jazeera: Holding The Head High
interview with Samir Khader, February 7, 2006

program on the making of the documentary film, September 26, 2004
''IPA'' - Voices That Must Be Heard - Inside Al Jazeera: A Conversation with Samir Khader
interview July 1, 2004 issue
''In These Times'' - Inside Al-Jazeera
interview June 18, 2004
''Philadelphia City Paper'' - The View From Here
interview June 18, 2004
''LA Weekly'' - Meeting Al-Jazeera
extensive interview June 4, 2004
''Democracy Now!'' - Massacre in Fallujah: Over 600 Dead, 1,000 Injured, 60,000 Refugees
April 12, 2004 with transcript, audio and video *
"Inside Al Jazeera" interview by Mridu Chandra and Rehan Ansari ''The Brooklyn Rail'' (June 2004)
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