Walid Al-Omari | |
Native Name: | وليد العمري |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1957 |
Birth Place: | Sandala, Israel |
Alma Mater: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel Aviv University The Hague University of Applied Sciences (PhD) |
Employer: | Al Jazeera |
Nationality: | Palestinian |
Occupation: | Journalist |
Awards: | Palestine International Prize for Media (2000) |
Walid Al-Omari (وليد العمري) (born; 11 February 1957) is an Arab / Palestinian journalist, writer and the bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Jerusalem and Ramallah.[1] [2]
Al-Omari was born in Sandala, Israel on 11 February 1957. He studied at Arab Orthodox College Haifa. He received a degree in International relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also studied at Tel Aviv University and then received a doctorate in media from The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
He first joined the MBC and NBC channel as a correspondent between 1991 and 1995 then joined the Al Jazeera channel on June 26, 1996. One year later he won the title of the chief correspondent. He also worked for several press institutions, including the Palestinian Press Services, Al-Awda magazine in occupied Jerusalem, Radio Orient in Paris, Multicult.fm in Berlin and the Lebanese newspaper Al-Moustaqbal from 1997 to 2000.[3]