Mohamed Fahmy

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (محمد فاضل فهمي ; born April 27, 1974) is an Egyptian-born Canadian journalist, war correspondent and author.

He has worked extensively in the Middle East, North Africa, for CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera English.

Fahmy was born in Egypt on April 27, 1974.

He has reported extensively in the Middle East, North Africa and North-America for BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera English.

Fahmy covered the Iraq War in 2003 for the Los Angeles Times and entered Iraq on the first day of the war from Kuwait.

Upon completion of his one-year mission, he authored his first book, Baghdad Bound.

Most recently, he covered the Arab Spring.

He covered the Iraq War in 2003 for the Los Angeles Times and entered Iraq on the first day of the ground war.

Upon completion of his one-year mission, he authored his first book, Baghdad Bound.

Fahmy spent the following two years reporting for Dubai Television, producing dozens of segments for a prime time television talk show focused on social issues in the Persian Gulf states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE.

In 2007 he completed a one-year mission as a protection delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Lebanon, protecting the rights of political prisoners, refugees and the missing.

In 2011, he was honored with a Peabody Award along with the CNN team for the network's coverage of the Arab Spring.

The following year he won the Tom Renner Investigative Reporting award for producing the CNN Freedom Project documentary series "Death in the Desert".

For the first time, the series exposed the organized crime rings operating the illegal human trafficking of Sub-Saharan Africans to Israel through its Sinai border with Egypt.

Fahmy co-authored Egyptian Freedom Story.

The book is a photo documentary of the January 25th revolution of 2011.

In September 2013, Fahmy accepted a new post as the Al Jazeera English International Bureau Chief based in Egypt.

On 29 December 2013, he and two fellow Al Jazeera English journalists, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, were arrested by Egyptian authorities.

In September 2013, he accepted a new post as the Al Jazeera English Egypt Bureau Chief.

On December 29, 2013, Fahmy was arrested along with his colleagues Peter Greste and Baher Ghorab.

The trio is accused of conspiring with a terrorist group and fabricating news to portray Egypt in a state of civil war.

Fahmy has suffered a permanent disability in his right arm, as he was forced to sleep on the floor in solitary confinement of a freezing, insect-infested cell in the terrorist wing for the first month of his detention, worsening an injury he had sustained before his arrest and mis-healing his bones.

On 23 June 2014, Fahmy was found guilty by a Cairo Criminal Court and sentenced to seven years of incarceration at the Tora Prison, a maximum-security prison.

Fahmy received the Canadian Commission World Press Freedom Award and a certificate from the UNESCO on World Press Freedom Day dated May 3, 2014, which coincided with his appearance in court.

World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2014 Fahmy received the Canadian Commission World Press Freedom Award and a certificate from the UNESCO on World Press Freedom Day dated May 3, 2014, which coincided with Fahmy's appearance in court.

On 1 January 2015, the Egyptian Court of Appeals announced a retrial for Fahmy, Mohamed, and Greste.

Release on bail was not allowed.

Fahmy renounced his Egyptian citizenship on 3 February 2015.

to benefit from a presidential executive order allowing the deportation of foreign prisoners.

His colleague Peter Greste was deported to Australia.

On 12 February 2015, both Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were released on bail and referred to a six-month-long retrial.

On 29 August 2015, Fahmy, Mohamed, and Greste each received three-year sentences from the retrial judge.

Greste was sentenced in absentia.

On 23 September 2015, it was reported that Fahmy was pardoned by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

In a BBC HARDtalk interview shortly after his release, he criticized Al Jazeera English's decision to take the Egyptian government to court for cancelling its network license.

He also confirmed that he is suing Al Jazeera English for "100 million dollars" for "damages."

President al-Sisi restored his Egyptian citizenship on June 10, 2016.

Fahmy started his new job as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia upon winning his freedom and returning to Vancouver, Canada.

He authored a book about his imprisonment in Egypt titled The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion prison to Freedom.

The book was adapted into a screenplay written by Michael Bronner.