I graduated from the faculty of Law many, many years ago. I decided to start my career as a cartoonist in several newspapers, did that for a few years, and never went back to practicing law since then.

In 2003 I joined the Arabic service team of BBC. I was an editor on the Arabic website, a broadcast journalist, director, presenter and reporter at the Arabic radio from 15 different countries. 

I went through several training courses while working for BBC among which are Broadcast Journalism, Hostile environment training in London and the BBC legal training.

In 2006, I was delegated by the BBC Trust in Darfur, Sudan to lead the Corporation’s team there in the production of programs for the displaced and refugees in the stricken region. Which was later the main inspiration for writing one of my books; Parachute. 

The program Draw your Place on the Ground produced by the team in Sudan was awarded with Radio For Peace building Africa Award.

Radio production was always a passion of mine, so at the beginning of 2008, I founded Teet Radio; the first independent online broadcasting radio station in Egypt. The station was successful throughout its broadcasting period of three years, during which hundreds of sarcastic, sometimes controversial, episodes were produced and aired.

In 2009, I moved to ONTv as editor in chief of the newsroom, and later in the same year I joined the Arabic team of Thomson Reuters, where I worked as a journalist and editor of Arabic news.

In 2013, I started my program Garhi Show on the internet, which was later broadcasted on ONTv. I had another show running in the same year called Gabet Ragel.

I went back to the radio in 2014 with my daily news show Elmowaten Garhi which I hosted for four years.

I wrote articles for many publications including Rozalyoussef magazine, AlMasry AlYoum, Akhbar Elyoum, Rosalyoussef daily newspaper and Elseyasa Aldawleyya.

In 2017 I joined the news station; OnTvLive and for one year I hosted a daily show called Follow ON covering trending topics in different social media outlets.

 

I have five published books to date: 

حارة ضبعة – Dabaa Alley (Novel) 

باراشوت – Parachute (Sarcastic Travel Literature)

مرسي قصةـقصيرةـحزينة – Morsi #short_sad_story (Sarcastic Historic Literature)

اللهم اجعله خير  (A childhood biography) 

أن تعيش لتأكل – To live to eat (Food and travel short stories)

 

I started my training career during my BBC Trust work in Sudan in 2006 where I was the youngest senior trainer in the history of the BBC world service. And the first Arab to hold this title. And since then I had the training of trainers courses in BBC, Thomson Reuters and the Arab investigative journalism network (ARIJ) and trained hundreds of journalists on radio and television production in Egypt and several Arab countries including Sudan ,Lebanon ,Iraq ,UAE ,Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

 

Trainings I currently offer:

  • Broadcast journalism
  • Writing for Radio and television
  • Reporting for Radio and television
  • Presentation skills for Radio and television
  • News editing
  • News reading, anchoring and reporting
  • Media training for corporate and governmental officials
  • Investigative journalism
  • Introduction to photojournalism
  • Media as a Political Tool (PLP)

 

For more information, training proposals or job offers please contact me here.