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| '''Jaafar Abdul Karim''' (]: جعفر عبد الكريم ; born in ]) is a German journalist and TV presenter. He is currently living in ] and working for ]. | |||
| == Early years == | |||
| Abdul Karim was born in Monrovia, but grew up in ] (the country of origin of his parents) and ] and moved to ] in 2001. He studied media informatics at the ] and at the ] in ] and completed a directing course at the London Film Academy.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Anne Fromm|periodical=Die Tageszeitung: taz|title=Berichterstattung über Flüchtlinge: Und Abdul Karim hört zu|issn=0931-9085|date=2016-09-15|language=German|url=https://taz.de/!5336254/|access-date=2020-02-16 | |||
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| == Career == | |||
| Abdul Karim worked as an editor and video journalist for the talk show ''Jugend ohne Grenzen'' at Deutsche Welle , for which he commuted between Cairo and Berlin and produced current reports for the show at both locations.<ref> Deutsche Welle, 8. Oktober 2015</ref> | |||
| He has been the presenter of the talk show ''Shabab Talk'' in the Arabic program of Deutsche Welle since 2011 . The show reaches over 8.5 million viewers worldwide.<ref> bei sueddeutsche.de</ref> After broadcasting a program on the situation of women in Sudan in which a 28-year-old woman loudly criticized the oppression and harassment of women in North Africa, hate messages, calls for boycotts and open threats of violence emerged in September 2018.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sudan: Morddrohungen nach "Shababtalk" {{!}} DW {{!}} 23.09.2018|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.dw.com/de/sudan-morddrohungen-nach-shababtalk/a-45609755|url-status=|format=|access-date=2018-09-25|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)|date=|year=|language=de|pages=|quote=}}</ref> | |||
| In September 2015, Abdul Karim expanded his television activities to include various online projects, including a trilingual column for Zeit Online ( ''Jaafar, shu fi?'' ) And, since October 2015, ''Jaafar's video blog'' at Spiegel Online. | |||
| On 19 October 2015, Abdul Karim traveled to Dresden to report on the demonstrations of the Islamophobic Pegida movement that were taking place there . While trying to gather protesters' opinions, Abdul Karim was yelled at and later hit in the neck. The police have not been able to identify the perpetrator.<ref> bei tagesspiegel.de</ref> | |||
| Since June 2016, Abdul Karim has also moderated the culture magazine Stilbruch in the RBB , for which he was featured in the report ''Refugee and Arrived'' in September 2016 ''.'' accompanied the lives of Syrian refugees who work as artists in Berlin. In December 2016 first appeared on ZDFneo the two-part documentary ''How sexist we are?'' , in which Abdul Karim and Dunja Hayali address the forms and origins of sexism. The documentation was produced in the period after the incidents on New Year's Eve in Cologne . In the course of the refugee crisisAbdul Karim's work as a bilingual journalist was highlighted. He is often described as a mediator between actors in politics and society and the refugees themselves. He is a frequent guest on talk shows and magazines on topics related to the Arab world (including Günther Jauch , Phoenix Runde , Volle Kanne and Stern TV ). On 14 October 2016, Abdul Karim moderated the expert discussion of the then Federal President Joachim Gauckon the subject of integration and prevention of radicalization. Abdul Karim's journalistic approach is characterized by the fact that he lets people discuss even a polarizing topic. This approach was u. a. cited as the reason for being named Journalist of the Year 2016 in the “Reporter” category by Medium magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Das sind die Journalisten des Jahres 2016 – Medium Magazin Beta|periodical=|publisher=|url=http://mmbeta.de/pm-jdj2016/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2017-02-19|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref> | |||
| == Publications == | |||
| * ''Strangers or friends? What the young Arab community thinks, feels and moves'' Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-499-63390-4}} . | |||
| == Awards == | |||
| * 012: Top-10 placement in the journalist of the year election by Medium Magazin.<ref> Medium Magazin (online), abgerufen am 12. Dezember 2016</ref> | |||
| * 2016: Journalist of the year in the "Reporter" category, Medium Magazin.<ref></ref> | |||
| == References == | |||
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