SXSW 2012

Vice President for Middle East and North Africa
Internews Network
Jamal Dajani is the VP for the MENA region for Internews. Jamal witnessed the launch of the Arab Spring from its birthplace in Tunisia in January 2011, and has evaluated the impact of media on transitional countries during and post revolutions from within Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria. A winner of the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media for Link TV’s Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, Jamal has extensively covered the MENA region for several years producing more than 2,000 news episodes. He worked as a consultant for PBS Frontline/World where he published the Arab Media Revolution. Dajani is a frequent guest on several national and international media broadcast networks and has published numerous articles on the Middle East in many print and electronic media outlets. He blogs regularly on The Huffington Post.