Jenan Moussa

Jenan Moussa (Arabic: جنان موسى‎; born 14 April[1] 1984, Beirut) is an investigative reporter of the Dubai based Al Aan TV network.

Early life and education

She graduated from the American University of Science and Technology (AUST) and began to work for Al Aan, first in the office, but soon she was deployed as a field reporter in several countries[2] such as Libya, Mali, Syria or Germany.

Journalistic career

She published several reports which made worldwide headlines such as:

A report about the juridical situation in Timbuktu, Mali, during the rule of the Islamists in 2012–2013.[3]

An interview of the imprisoned Alexanda Kotey in Syria, who is a member of the so-called "The Beatles", a British group from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[4]

And the research about Omaima Abdi, the widow of Deso Dogg, a German rapper who joined ISIL. She obtained her cellphone and traced her to Hamburg, Germany,[5] where Omaima Abdi was detained in and prosecuted following her research.[6] In October 2020, Obaidi Abdi was issued a verdict condemning her to 3 years and 6 months imprisonment.[7]

Her reporting about ISIL came again to the news in September 2020, as the Combined Joint Task Force against ISIL reported that Moussa has investigated the detention of the current leader of ISIL (September 2020) Mohammed Said Abd Al Rahman Al-Mawla in 2008 in Iraq by the United States, and has come to the conclusion that he has been betraying members of ISIL and Al-Qaeda at the time.[8]

Awards
  • In 2008, while still a student at the AUST, she was honored with the Ghassan Tueni Award.[9]

References
  1. "Jenan Moussa". Twitter Biography.
  2. "Jenan Moussa, reporter à vie". L'Orient-Le Jour. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. Moussa, Harald Doornbos, Jenan. "Inside the Islamic Emirate of Timbuktu". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  4. "أول مقابلة تلفزيونية مع أخطر مقاتل بريطاني في صفوف داعش". أخبار الآن (in Arabic). 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  5. SPIEGEL, DER. ""Islamischer Staat" (IS): Der Fall Omaima A. aus Hamburg - DER SPIEGEL - Politik". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  6. Fengler, Denis (2019-09-09). "Islamischer Staat: Deso-Dogg-Witwe nach drei Jahren verhaftet". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  7. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Widow of German jihadi rapper jailed for joining 'IS' | DW | 02.10.2020". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  8. "News roundup: ISIS leader Al-Mawla betrays fellow jihadists". The Global Coalition Against Daesh. 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  9. "Press Club honors students with Gebran Tueni Awards". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  10. "Jenan Moussa wins Shifa Gardi International Award for her Middle East reporting". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
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