Jury member
Biography

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an Emmy-nominated journalist, producer and actor. His 2023 documentary investigation produced for the BBC, Queer Egypt Under Attack won a British Journalism Award for Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion. Prior to that he worked as a Senior Correspondent for AJ+ where he produced award-winning documentaries focused on social justice and human rights.

He has worked as a correspondent and producer on six documentaries for the award-winning VICE on HBO, as a reporter and producer for The New York Times, The Huffington Post and PBS, and he is most widely known for creating and co-hosting Al Jazeera English’s flagship program "The Stream".

Ahmed is currently developing a podcast, acting in films, and documenting the genocide of the Palestinian people. His parents, who left Palestine in 1948 and 1967 respectively, were both born in Palestine.