Mohamed Fahmy
Mohamed Fadel Fahmy ( ; born April 27, 1974) is an Egyptian-born Canadian journalist, war correspondent and author. He has worked extensively in the Middle East, North Africa, for CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera English.Fahmy covered the Iraq War in 2003 for the ''Los Angeles Times'' and entered Iraq on the first day of the war from Kuwait. Upon completion of his one-year mission, he authored his first book, ''Baghdad Bound''. Most recently, he covered the Arab Spring.
In September 2013, Fahmy accepted a new post as the Al Jazeera English International Bureau Chief based in Egypt. On 29 December 2013, he and two fellow Al Jazeera English journalists, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, were arrested by Egyptian authorities. On 23 June 2014, Fahmy was found guilty by a Cairo Criminal Court and sentenced to seven years of incarceration at the Tora Prison, a maximum-security prison.
On 1 January 2015, the Egyptian Court of Appeals announced a retrial for Fahmy, Mohamed, and Greste. Release on bail was not allowed. Fahmy renounced his Egyptian citizenship on 3 February 2015. to benefit from a presidential executive order allowing the deportation of foreign prisoners. His colleague Peter Greste was deported to Australia.
On 12 February 2015, both Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were released on bail and referred to a six-month-long retrial. On 29 August 2015, Fahmy, Mohamed, and Greste each received three-year sentences from the retrial judge. Greste was sentenced in absentia.
On 23 September 2015, it was reported that Fahmy was pardoned by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. In a BBC HARDtalk interview shortly after his release, he criticized Al Jazeera English's decision to take the Egyptian government to court for cancelling its network license. He also confirmed that he is suing Al Jazeera English for "100 million dollars" for "damages." President al-Sisi restored his Egyptian citizenship on June 10, 2016.
Fahmy started his new job as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia upon winning his freedom and returning to Vancouver, Canada. He authored a book about his imprisonment in Egypt titled ''The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion prison to Freedom''. The book was adapted into a screenplay written by Michael Bronner. Provided by Wikipedia
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ANALYTICAL STUDY FOR THE DETERMINANTS OF ONION CROP EXPORTS by Heba Mohamed Fahmy
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Occurrence of Samarskite-Y in the Mineralized Umm Lassifa Pegmatite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt by Mohamed Fahmy Raslan
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Citizenship and Religious Freedoms in Post-Revolutionary Egypt by Mohamed Fahmy Menza
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Abstract 1122‐000197: Carotid‐Cavernous Fistula: Does Transcranial Duplex Worth Revisiting? by Mohamed Fahmy Doheim, Mohamed Mostafa
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Effect of Bypass-Flow on Leaching of Salts in a Cracking Soil in the Nile Delta by Haruyuki Fujimaki, Hassan Mohamed Fahmy Abd El Baki
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Efficient Use of Graphene Oxide and Silica Fume in Cement-Based Composites by Ahmad Abdullah, Mohamed Taha, Mohamed Rashwan, Mohamed Fahmy
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Abstract 1122‐000132: Fuoxetine for Recovery After Stroke: A Pooled Analysis of 7165 Patients by Mohamed Fahmy Doheim, Ahmed Elsnhory, Mohammed Elgammal, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Hagrass, Ahmed Hanbal, Anas Fathy, Eslam Ahmed, Yassamine Ouerdane, Khaled Mohamed Ragab, Mohamed Fahmy Doheim
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Association between blood coagulability and migraine by Ebtesam Mohamed Fahmy, Mona Salah Eldin Hamdy, Reem Medhat Mahmoud, Haidy Elshebawy
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Rosuvastatin and co-enzyme Q10 improve high-fat and high-fructose diet-induced metabolic syndrome in rats via ameliorating inflammatory and oxidative burden by Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Fahmy, Rabab Hamed Sayed, Muhammad Farag El-Yamany, Reham El-Naggar, Hesham A. Eliwa
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A Sustainable synthesis, eco-safe approach efficiency and DFT study of novel 5,6,7,8-Tetrahyroquinazolin-2(1H)-one derivatives as antioxidant reagents by Mohammed Abed Kadhim, Amin Farouk Mohamed Fahmy, Emad Khelil Mohammed Zangana, Aya Ibrahim Hassaballah, Sameh Ahmed Rizk
Published 2023-08-01
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Prevalence of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, and its associated risk factors among medical students: a nation-based cross-sectional study by Mohamed Baklola, Mohamed Terra, Amr Badr, Fayrouz Mohamed Fahmy, Enas Elshabrawy, Yousef Hawas, Doaa Abdel-Hady, Abdel-Hady El-Gilany
Published 2023-08-01
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