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Naveed Ahmad

Naveed Ahmad is a hybrid of investigative journalist and academic with a background in conflict and peace studies. His journalistic work has been published in English, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish and Norwegian languages. With 18-years of field reporting experience to his credit, he contributes to journals of various international universities as well news sources. He has been a media trainer on investigative reporting and TV journalism over the last five years. Ahmad is a co-founder and joint recipient of UN X-Cultural Reporting Award 2010. UN Alliance of Civilizations and International Center for Journalists had chosen Silent Heroes, Invisible Bridges for the unique distinction.

In 2000, Ahmad won the Hawaii-based East-West Center’s Jefferson Fellowship focusing on ‘Challenges of Globalization’. The Washington Press Center offered him his next fellowship in 2004 on ‘Conflict Resolution and Nuclear Non-proliferation’. He is a recipient of Panos Media Fellowship on Conflict. He tweets @naveed360.

Alia Turki Al-Rabeo

Joint recipient of UN X-Cultural Reporting Award 2010, Alia Turki Al-Rabeo is a reporter with experience of working as a producer and an anchor. Besides reporting for regional newspapers as Awan (Kuwait) and Al-Jazira (Saudi Arabia), she has been contributing to the London-based Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) organization and The McClatchy Company, a syndicate of 30 dailies across the United States. She is also 2011-2012 digital journalism fellow at the Intajour Institute, Germany.

Owing to her special interest in gender issues, she has been contributing to the World Pulse and The Women’s Interntional Persepctive. Her journalistic work has appeared in news sources based in America, Britain, Pakistan and the Gulf region.

Beyond covering culture and arts bits, Ms Al-Rabeo has special interest in the inter-religious and inter-cultural relations in the Middle East, North Africa and the West. She experienced cross-cultural lifestyles since childhood as her paternal family hails from the Arab region, while her mother is of Turkish heritage.

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