Ahmed Shilhab-Eldin

Digital producer, co-host of “The Stream”, Al Jazeera

Ahmed is digital producer and co-host of “The Stream” ­ a new online community with a daily TV show on Al Jazeera that taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to help us understand the world's untold stories.

Before joining Al Jazeera, he worked as a reporter and producer for PBS’s award-winning documentary series Wide Angle,  The New York Times, and The Doha Film Institute. He has also worked as a freelance reporter in New York, Lebanon, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan.

Soon after graduating with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Ahmed began teaching New Media courses as an Adjunct Professor, including 'The Bronx Beat' and 'New Media Skills'. In 2008, his Masters Thesis earned him a Webby Award for “Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers”.

Ahmed's work  has been featured in a series of online publications including Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, PBS's FRONTLINE , TimeOut Magazine, and Washington Week. He also served as a new media mentor on News 21, a collaboration of 12 journalism schools experimenting with forms of digital in-depth investigative reporting about America’s changing social fabric.