Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (Arabic: أحمد شهاب الدين) (born September 16, 1984) is an American-Kuwaiti of Palestinian descent.[2] He is also a journalist and columnist formerly at Huffington Post and VICE.[3] He was a senior reporter for Al Jazeera Plus from 2017 through 2020.[4][5] He produced an Emmy-nominated documentary.
n 2008, he won a Webby Award for master's digital media project, "Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers.”[6]
In 2020, during COVID lock-down, he began moving towards other creative pursuits, creating a parody account on the short video platform TikTok and suggesting that he might begin podcasting.[2] He replied, in character, to a video by the Instagram and YouTube star Faiza Rammuny and it went viral, launching this leg of his career.[3]
He also promotes LGBT and trans rights on his social media and journalism.[6]
In 2023, he presented Queer Egypt Under Attack for BBC News focussing on the treatment of LGBT people in Egypt.[7]
In December 2024, he shared Amnesty International Australia's inaugural Human Rights Defender Award with Palestinian journalists Bisan Owda, Plestia Alaqad, and Anas Al-Sharif for "the significant impact of their fearless reporting on the genocide in Gaza, their innovative use of social media and citizen journalism to challenge traditional narratives and their ability to inspire action for justice."[8]
