Majed Abdel Hadi is a Palestinian journalist, political writer, and television correspondent. He works as a supervisor of political programs on Al Jazeera , and a journalism trainer at the Al Jazeera Training Center. He also worked as a supervisor of news bulletins and head of the Quality Control and Editorial Standards Department.
Study and professional career
Majed Abdel Hadi holds a BA in Sociology and then a Diploma from the International Press Institute. He works as a News Supervisor at Al Jazeera Satellite Channel.He was a journalism trainer at Al Jazeera Center for Media Training and Development, after having worked as head of the Quality Control and Editorial Standards Department, in addition to working as a correspondent and senior journalist over the past twelve years. He made abundant contributions on Al Jazeera television, in which he addressed various issues of regional and international conflicts.
According to what the Jordanian writer Fakhri Saleh wrote about him, who also said in an article published in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustour on September 18, 2011, that Majid Abdel Hadi was distinguished by this type of television writing that attracted attention. The listener, and the event is moved from its news space to something close to the boundaries of literature and invades the world of metaphor and linguistic metaphor. It is a writing technique that reduces the dullness of the events and the dryness of the press report, deepens the presence of the event, and gives it some of the permanence of literature and its readability time after time after time.
Social networking sites on the Internet are full of hundreds of Majid Abdel Hadi’s television reports, and he gained wide popularity in the Arab world, thanks to his prominent role in covering and discussing the so-called Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, and before that thanks to his prominent participation in live field coverage of major... Wars and events that ravaged the Arab and Islamic worlds, such as the outbreak of the Second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, the Atlantic War in Afghanistan in 2001, and the American-British war on Iraq in 2003. Al Jazeera also relied on Majid Abdel Hadi as one of its most prominent journalists, in covering a large number of political events and international conferences. And regional, in addition to completing several programs and documentaries.
Majed Abdel Hadi joined Al Jazeera as a correspondent in Palestine in 1999 and then moved to work as a correspondent and senior journalist at its center in Doha. Before that, he worked as a program preparer for an office Al Jazeera also relied on Majed Abdel Hadi as one of its most prominent journalists, covering a large number of political events and international and regional conferences, in addition to his completion of several programs and documentaries. Majed Abdel Hadi joined Al Jazeera as a correspondent in Palestine in 1999 and then moved to work as a correspondent and senior journalist at its center in Doha.
Before that, he worked as a program preparer for an office Al Jazeera also relied on Majed Abdel Hadi as one of its most prominent journalists, covering a large number of political events and international and regional conferences, in addition to his completion of several programs and documentaries. Majed Abdel Hadi joined Al Jazeera as a correspondent in Palestine in 1999 and then moved to work as a correspondent and senior journalist at its center in Doha. Before that, he worked as a program preparer for an officeERT in Ramallah and a journalist with the Abu Dhabi TV office in Ramallah in 1998.
He also worked as editor-in-chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda newspaper in Ramallah, editor-in-chief of Nidaa Al-Watan magazine, editor-in-chief of Al-Hadath newspaper in Jordan, director of the office of the Parisian newspaper Al-Muharrer in Jordan, and editor-in-chief of Al-Hadaf magazine. in Damascus. [2] He writes opinion articles on the Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed website .
The most important field television coverage
- Covering the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 2000.
- Coverage of the battles of Tura Bora and the pursuit of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in eastern Afghanistan in 2001.
- Coverage of international inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002-2003.
- Coverage of the American-British war on Iraq from its start on March 20 until its end on April 9, 2003.
- Coverage of the Arab Summit Conference in Beirut in 2002.
- Coverage of the Arab Summit Conference in Tunisia in 2004.
- Coverage of the Arab Summit Conference in Khartoum in 2006.
- Coverage of the Lebanese parliamentary elections in 2009.
- Coverage of the Lebanese parliamentary elections in 2005.
- Covering the reactions to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon in 2004.
- Coverage of the 2012 Yemeni presidential elections.
- Covering the Egyptian presidential elections in their first and second rounds in 2012.
- Coverage of the international coalition’s war on ISIS in the city of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) on the Syrian border with Turkey, in October 2014.
Programs and documentaries
- The lover who was devoured by the story; A documentary film in two parts, each lasting ninety minutes, presenting the life story of the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, based on his literary heritage.
- killing witnesses; A documentary film about the martyrs of the press in the American-British war on Iraq.
- I see, I hear, I speak; A two-part documentary film, each lasting ninety minutes, presenting the story of the emergence of the Al Jazeera satellite channel, its influence in the Arab world, and the praise and accusations it received.
- The seminary in Najaf under the microscope; Its history, religious and political role (46 forty-six minutes).
- Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers and prisons under the microscope (two parts: ninety minutes)
- Palestinian workers in Israel under the microscope (47 forty-seven minutes).
Articles, interviews, dialogues and press releases
- A journalist at Al Jazeera channel shakes the monotony of the language; Majed Abdel Hadi: I am not afflicted with the disease of nostalgia and its pains; Al-Arab Qatari newspaper [3]
- Majed Abdel Hadi,, On my head is your neighborhood [4]
- Reportage and the breadth of the boundaries of literature; Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustour [5]
- Literary language in the language of media: Majed Abdel Hadi’s reports as a model/study by Dr. Osama Othman.
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