Dalal Mawad

About

Dalal Mawad is an award-winning multimedia Lebanese journalist based in Paris and author of ALL SHE LOST a non-fiction book about Lebanon’s collapse and the Beirut explosion published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK. Mawad has been working for Al Araby TV as an EU correspondent, previously she worked for CNN Paris covering France and Europe. She is also a part-time journalism professor at Sciences Po in Paris. Previously, she worked as a senior Middle East and North Africa video producer and correspondent with the Associated Press. Mawad spent four years working as a regional video producer for the United Nations Refugee Agency covering displacement in the Middle East and the world. Many of her videos were top performers at the UNHCR and picked by various broadcasters including Al Jazeera, CNN, Al Arabiya and others. Previous to that, Mawad was an on-air reporter with LBCI, a Lebanese broadcaster, where she mainly covered human rights, refugees and environmental issues. She was the first Arab journalist to break a story on child sexual abuse in Lebanon’s Catholic and Orthodox church. She also worked as a deputy news editor for Al Jazeera English in Doha mainly covering the war in Syria. She has a Master’s degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and another Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York where she graduated with honors and was awarded the Joan Konner award for outstanding reporting for Television and Radio. Mawad is the recipient of the Samir Kassir Award for the freedom of the press for 2020 which is awarded by the European Union and is the most prestigious award for journalism in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf region. She is fluent in Arabic , French, English and Spanish.