Cross-cultural reporting and EuroMed mobility The Intercultural Trends and Media Platform Sara Ahmed MANAGING EDITOR, EGYPTIAN STREETS (EGYPT) Cairo-based and with nine years of experience in journalism, Sara is deputy editor-in-chief and managing editor of Egyptian Streets. She holds two Bachelors (Egyptology and Journalism) from the American University in Cairo (2011). Her interests include history, comparative archaeology, gender, religion, minority rights, science fiction, and the environment. Egypt Must Include Refugees in its Covid-19 Response (Elena Habersky, 1 May 2020) #WeCompleteEachOther: New Campaign Promoting Social Cohesion Between Egyptians and Migrants (21 July 2019) EU Looks to Egypt for Help With Mediterranean Migration (Mirna Abdulaal, 21 September 2018) Daham Alasaad FREELANCE JOURNALIST AND FILMMAKER (DENMARK/SYRIA) Daham Alasaad is a freelance journalist and filmmaker who was born in Syria and is now based in Copenhagen, Paris and Middle East. He is a regular contributor in investigations to Der Spiegel Magazine, L'Express, Le Point, Dagbladet Information in Denmark, Danish Tv, France 24, and M6 TV in France. Daham was nominated for several different Journalist World Awards and his latest films ‘The People Of No Man’s Land’ (2019) and One Way Ticket (2020) screened in film festivals, while also both documentaries received the Migration Media Award 2019. Vimeo personal account Articles for The National Articles for Der Spiegel Articles for Daraj Anna Alboth MEDIA PROGRAMMES COORDINATOR, MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP (UK) Anna Alboth is a journalist and activist, media officer of Minority Rights Group. For the last years, she has been running the “Media, Minorities and Migration” program that took 100+ European journalists to most of the migration hotspots: Greek/Turkish, Bosnian/Croatian, Polish/ Belarusian, Moroccan/Spanish borders, Canary Islands, Ghana and Senegal. She supported the production of 500+ media pieces, 2 documentary films and 6 roundtables for editors, publishers and academia about covering migration. She also initiated dozens of migration campaigns, including Civil March For Aleppo, that was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Media, Minorities and Migration” program Covering Migration Toolkit Photo gallery from some of the fieldtrips Cross-cultural reporting and EuroMed mobility The Intercultural Trends and Media Platform Bilal Almobarak MEMBER, SUPPORT GROUP NETWORK (SWEDEN/SYRIA) Bilal Almobarak is a pharmacist with a Master in Biomedicine. Originally from Syria, he came to Sweden in 2015. Helping others and especially newcomers has always been a core value that Bilal wanted to contribute with since he came to Sweden. This is exactly what he likes mostly about Support Group Network and similar initiatives. In Sweden, Bilal worked as an associated researcher at Sahlgrenska Cancer Center and now works as CEO to Support Group Network. Support Group Network Facebook page Noora Kotilainen POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY (FINLAND) Noora Kotilainen (Dr.Soc Sci) is social scientist and historian interested in visual communication, media studies, international relations, politics of compassion and solidarity. Her work focuses on (media) representations of violence, crisis, war, global mobility as well as terrorism. She works as a post-doctoral researcher at the National Defence University Finland in an Academy of Finland project, and as a visiting fellow at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Political History. (Not) Looking Like a Refugee: Visual Memories of Refugeeness and the Figure of ‘The iPhone Man’ Ahmed El Jechtimi JOURNALIST, THOMSON REUTERS (MOROCCO) Ahmed El Jechtimi is a Moroccan journalist covering macroeconomics, politics and major social issues. He previously worked as a policy analyst at a think in Abu Dhabi. He is a holder of three Master degrees, in translation, EU studies and strategic studies from the universities of Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tangier, College of Europe in Warsaw and the University of Exeter respectively. Morocco's vaccination drive bypasses undocumented migrants, Thomson Reuters, 16 March 2021 Morocco rebuffs EU request to re-admit third-country migrants, Thomson Reuters, 15 December 2020 African migrants in Morocco wait for aid as coronavirus bites, Thomson Reuters, 3 April 2020 Cross-cultural reporting and EuroMed mobility The Intercultural Trends and Media Platform Yamina El Kirat El Allame PROFESSOR, MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY (MOROCCO) Yamina El Kirat El Allame got her Ph.D. in minority identities, languages and cultures. She was a member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Committee of Experts for Endangered Languages. She is an international adviser and consultant in the field of higher education. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Greenville Tech in 2010 with the program entitled "Direct Access to the Muslim World" where she helped in developing a program entitled “Middle Eastern Studies” at Greenville Tech College, South Carolina. She is the coordinator of the AMAS Erasmus Inter Africa Mobility Project in Morocco, a member of the Erasmus Capacity Building Project “Edu-BioMed” on biosphere reserves and a member of the Global Youth Academy Project and a research partner of the GLoSYS Project. El Kirat is also the coordinator of the research laboratory “Culture, language, Education, Migration and Society” and the doctoral program “Studies in Language & Society” at Mohammed V University in Rabat Morocco. Professor El Kirat is a member of the Standing Committee of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL) and the President of the organizing Committee of WOCAL 9, which took place in Rabat-Morocco in August 2018. She has taught and carried out research in cultural linguistics/anthropology, sociolinguistics, language endangerment, language and culture, cultural representations and attitudes, political discourse analysis, minority cultures, migration issues, languages and identities, gender issues, and language policy, for more than 25 years. Her interest in all these issues stems from her personal experience and interest in the linguistic, cultural, social, educational and political issues in North Africa in general and the Moroccan context in particular. Publications: El Kirat El Allame, Yamina et al. Racism and the Representations of Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco. In Migration, Human Rights, and the Politics of Identity in a Globalized World. In Belghazi Taieb & Said Graiouid 2013. Publications of The Faculty of Letters and Human Ahmed El Jechtimi is a Moroccan journalist covering Sciences. Mohammed V University-Agdal. macroeconomics, politics and major social issues. El Kirat El Allame Yamina & Samir Nazih. Gender and Migratory He previously worked as a policy analyst at a think in Abu Dhabi. Experiences: The Case of Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco He is a holder of three Master degrees, in translation, EU studies and (Under review). strategic studies from the universities of Abdelmalek Essaadi in Younes El Yousfi & El Kirat El Allame Yamina. The Representation of Tangier, College of Europe in Warsaw and the University of Exeter Sub-Sahran Migrants in Moroccan Print Media: The Case of Assabah respectively. Newspaper (Under review). Supervising two doctoral dissertations on the issue of migration: 1. The Representation of Sub-Saharan Migrants in the Moroccan Online Press 2. Sub-Saharan Migrants’ Presence in Morocco: Mutual Perceptions & Attitudes Cross-cultural reporting and EuroMed mobility The Intercultural Trends and Media Platform Erik Halkjaer EDITOR IN CHIEF AT OMVÄRLDEN AND PRESIDENT OF THE SWEDISH BRANCH OF REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (SWEDEN) Erik Halkjaer is editor-in-chief of the magazine OmVärlden and president of Reporters Without Borders Sweden (RSF Sweden). He has an extensive and long experience of reporting as freelance journalist on global development issues and human rights. He has a specific focus on Latin America. As editor-in-chief of OmVärlden he often publishes articles and stories on migration from the MENA-region and Africa to Europe. Omvärlden website EU spikar sjuårig biståndsbudget, Omvärlden, 24 March 2021 (in Swedish) Ett turistparadis i migrationskris, Omvärlden, 2 February 2021 (in Swedish) Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, Omvärlden, 28 April 2020 (in Swedish) Sudan: “Jag kan skära av flödet av människor här”, Omvärlden, December 2019 (in Swedish) Drömmar om ett bättre liv driver migration: "I slutändan vill vi ha samma saker i livet", Omvärlden, 30 October 2019 (in Swedish) Därför ökar migrationen från Afrika, Omvärlden, 22 March 2018 (in Swedish) Eleonora Insalaco HEAD OF OPERATIONS AND INTERCULTURAL RESEARCH, ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION Eleonora Insalaco is the Head of Operations and Intercultural Research at the Anna Lindh Foundation. She is also the editor of three consecutive editions of the Anna Lindh Report on Intercultural Trends in the EuroMed region (2010, 2014, 2017 editions) and of the Anna Lindh Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship Education in the EuroMed region. She is a graduate of the College of Europe, with academic expertise in Islamic studies and Euro-Med relations in the field of education, research, youth, civil society, cultural and media. Anna Lindh Foundation website Cross-cultural reporting and EuroMed mobility The Intercultural Trends and Media Platform Samira Mechri PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR (TUNISIA) Samira Mechri holds an MA in Cultural Studies, University of Warwick (England), a diploma in Migration Studies, University of Hannover (Germany) and a PhD in