MOHAMED KRICHEN
MOHAMED KRICHEN
Advisory Director
Mohamed Krichen is a Doha-based anchor and program host for Al-Jazeera. Having joined the news channel at its inception in 1996, he was a member of Al-Jazeera’s editorial board from 2004 to 2010, and has run training courses for Al-Jazeera Training and Media Development Centre since its establishment in 2004. He has interviewed numerous heads of state and other prominent international figures, providing coverage from Iraq to Egypt, Morocco to Saudi Arabia.
For the last decade, he has been a weekly political columnist with the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi.
Krichen’s professional career is divided evenly between time spent in his native Tunisia, where he worked as a freelancer covering the activities of the Arab League and the PLO from 1981 to 1994, and working abroad since early 1995.
After graduating from the Journalism and News Institute in Tunisia in 1981, Krichen worked as a stringer with Reuters and then as editor of Arab affairs for several independent Tunisian weeklies. He also reported for the Saudi Okaz and Lebanese Al-Diyar newspapers. Krichen moved to radio, becoming a reporter with Radio Netherlands, Monte Carlo Middle East Radio, and Radio Tunis. In 1992, he shifted to television as correspondent for the London-based MBC, then as a newscaster for BBC Arabic. Krichen’s defense of press freedom in his native Tunisia made him the target of vilification by newspapers affiliated with the former Ben Ali regime.
He is the author of two books: The PLO: History and Factions (1986), and Al-Jazeera and Its Sisters , essays on the Arab media (2006).
