Biography of Khaled Dawoud

Khaled Dawoud is the Chief Correspondent for Egypt's daily Al-Ahram in Washington, DC.

He has a B.A. in Journalism from the American University in Cairo (AUC), an M.A. in Television Journalism from American University in Cairo, and an M.A. in Politics of the Middle East from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

His work experience includes the following:

Researcher on militant Islamic groups at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 1988-1992

Reporter at Egypt's English language daily, the Egyptian Gazette, 1988-1991

Cairo Correspondent for United Press International (UPI), 1989-1990

Cairo Correspondent for the German News Agency (dpa), 1990-1992

Cairo television correspondent for Middle East Broadcasting Network (MBC), 1991-1992.

Cairo Correspondent for the Associated Press, 1993-1995

Cairo Correspondent for Reuters, 1995-1996.

Working for Cairo-based international news agencies included covering all of Egypt's political, economic, social and archeological news of international interest. Khaled's work also required travel to nearby Arab countries to cover major breaking news in Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Iraq. His first international assignment was covering the First Gulf War in 1991.

As Regional Editor at Egypt's English language weekly newspaper, Al-Ahram Weekly from 1997-2002, he established a network of correspondents for Al-Ahram in nearly most Arab countries, Turkey and Iran, assigning them stories and editing their copy.

Khaled also had to travel to hot spots, covering the US operation, Desert Fox, against Iraq in 1998, Algerian elections in 1999, King Hussein's funeral in 1999, Hafez Assad's funeral in 2000, and the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in late 2000. In early 2001, he toured four former Eastern European countries (Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia) with Al-Ahram's Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Ibrahim Nafie, producing a book on East Europe after 10 years of the downfall on communism.

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Khaled spent six weeks in Pakistan covering the war against Afghanistan. In early 2002, he traveled to China with Mr. Nafie to interview the former Chinese president ahead of a visit by his Egyptian counterpart to Beijing. In late March 2002, Khaled was in Ramallah, Palestine when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered operation Defensive Shield, reoccupying the entire West Bank. Besides writing on regional issues, I also covered local stories, mainly related to militant Islamic groups in Egypt and human rights issues.

Additionally he was the Cairo correspondent for the BBC African Service, 1994-2002, Cairo correspondent for Lebanon's daily Annahar, 1997-2002, Cairo correspondent for the British daily, the Guardian, 1998-2002, and Journalism teacher at the American University in Cairo, 2000-2002.