Mohamed Abdel Dayem

Biographical Information
From the CPJ's staff profile:
 * Before joining CPJ in December 2008, Mohamed Abdel Dayem was a research analyst at the Save Darfur Coalition, where he was responsible for researching and producing all of the coalition's written materials. Abdel Dayem was also involved in increasing the coalition's outreach and coordination with activists, governments, and the media in the Middle East and Muslim world at large. In late 2006 and early 2007, Abdel Dayem worked at the National Endowment for Democracy, where he managed the Endowment's Iraq portfolio. Prior to that, he spent nearly five years at Human Rights Watch, conducting research and media outreach on countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Abdel Dayem has also worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has also been a consultant to a variety of NGOs, including the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Open Society Institute's Iraq Revenue Watch, the Fund for Global Human Rights, and the International Center for Journalists, among others. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he majored in political science and anthropology, Abdel Dayem also has an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in international law, conflict management and international economics. Aside from English, Abdel Dayem is fluent in Arabic and German. He has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East.

Affiliations

 * Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists

Events

 * DemocracyNow, 15 March 2012, talks about the imprisonment of Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist

Contact

 * Blog: cpj.org/blog/author/mohamed-abdel-dayem