"The battles for Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen: Banter, Barter and Bullets", Al-Hayat newspaper (Lebanon).
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Ballroom : Investigating closed political groups and religionBreaking into the world of closed political and religious groups can be dangerous and distressing. This panel will focus on the emotional toll our work can take and explore tools and strategies for staying safe and resilient while digging into groups which are protected by society or those in power. ModeratorsSpeakers
Abdul Rahman Chalabi / Egypt"The finance chain of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood", Al-Watan newspaper (Egypt).
Carol Kerbage / Lebanon"The battles for Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen: Banter, Barter and Bullets", Al-Hayat newspaper (Lebanon).
Carolina Jemsby / SwedenCurrently work as a freelance reporter, mainly for the Swedish Radio, focusing on investigating journalism. Previously, Carolina Jemsby mainly worked for TV as a reporter for the investigative programme 'Uppdrag Granskning' ('mission: investigation'), where she among other things produced a documentary on two Swedish journalists in prison in Ethiopia. From 2003-2009, she was the correspondent for Swedish TV4 covering subsaharian Africa from Johannesburg. Before living to Africa, she was employed at the Stockholm office of TV4, covering national and international news. Carolina Jemsby graduated from the University of Gothenburg early 1997 in journalism, political science, development policies and economy.
Frederik Obermaier / GermanyWorked for the news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), the newspapers Taz, Frankfurter Rundschau and the magazines Zeit Campus, Neon and Polityka (Poland). Currently he is working for the Süddeutsche Zeitung - Germany's biggest quality newspaper - Neon and other publications. His work focuses largely on Middle East politics, extremism and investigative research worldwide. 2010 he published the definitive book "Land am Abgrund: Staatszerfall und Kriegsgefahr in der Republik Jemen" (Country on the brink: State failure and the threat of war in the Republic of Yemen). He was part of the international team of journalists, who published the "Offshore-Leaks"-documents. Among others Obermaier revealed the secret companies of billionaire and playboy Gunter Sachs in tax-havens like the Cook-Islands. His articles about the offshore-companies of Herbert Stepic lead to the resignation of the Raiffeisen CEO in May 2013. 2011 he won the CNN-Award for his report about the Columbian guerilla-group FARC. Furthermore the magazine Medium Magazin listed him as one of the "Top 30 journalists under 30 years". In 2013 - together with a team of reporters of the Süddeutsche Zeitung - he won the renowned Wächterpreis for a weekend-special about Germany's weapons industry as well as the Helmut-Schmidt-Journalistenpreis for the "Offshore-Leaks"-revelations.
Henene Zbiss / Tunisia"New Quranic kindergartens in Tunisia produce Wahabi Elite", chief editor, Réalités Magazine (Tunisia).
Mohammad Ali Zeidan / Egypt"The finance chain of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood", Al-Watan newspaper (Egypt). |
