Ahmad Fakhouri or (أحمد فاخوري in Arabic) A Syrian content and media producer, voice actor, tv presenter and director.
His Life
Ahmad Fakhouri or (أحمد فاخوري in Arabic) was born in 1978 in Hamah, he study law in Aleppo university in 2001, and then high diploma in Damascus university.
in 2002 he worked as a Documentary Director for a advertisement companies, later in 2004 we won the best journalist contest in Damascus and become journalist and news reporter at official Syrian radio station.
in 2006 he managed to get into TV presenting with the Syrian TV and become Become an anchor for the evening major newscast. At the same time, Al-Fakhoury worked as voice over narrator, producer, and director of many documentaries, like Al Jazeera Documentary and National Geographic.
At the beginning of the Syrian resolution, He demanded in meetings with high court in the Syrian tv state that the whole truth must be revealed, and how the Syrian tv should let the opposition have a space to express their ideas and thoughts.
He contact and had a call with vice-president Dr. Buthaina Shaaban asking to make an interviews with the opposition "thinking that the Syrian TV is the people’s TV and not a specific group....” as he said, and his idea was rejected and he got threatened by the vice-president her self.
After that .. one day he was presenting a live news and with live call with a news reporter in Al-Maydan neighborhood in Damascus he forced to Deny the protests and once he said that word the news reporter in Al-Maydan neighborhood in Damascus was interrupt by protesters calling the president to resignation.
He felt uncomfortable with what happened and resign from live news reporting, little he know that the Syrian tv didn't like that, He was banned from traveling outside Syria and he got arrested by intelligence branch 251, and he moved through the Political Security branch and State Security Branch.
He said :
" I was severely interrogated in all the security branches, everything I was saying was reaching them with extreme accuracy as it was a live broadcast, they didn't like what I was doing, they were really upset with me."
He also said :
" They charge me with being (Agent for foreign countries) and (incitement to sectarianism) , They covered my eyes and let me stand against the wall for hours, I was able to hear people getting tortured and insulted in the main corridors of the Political Security branch, all what I was thinking of that if this is the main corridors how its in the basements? "
He was released after the interventions of political officials of the Syrian regime, once he get out he send his wife and kids to Cairo - Egypt, and with help of officers in the Free Syrian Army he managed to escaped to turkey.
Upon his arrival in Turkey, he addressed the Syrian people, saying:
" To the great Syrian people and to all the honorable media professionals in my country I waited for a long time to write these words.. I did not expect that I would come out safely from Syria since I left my job on Syrian TV more than eight months ago. "
in 2013 he start working as news reporter for alghad.tv in Istanbul, then he moved he moved with his family to The UK in 2014 and start working with The BBC by presenting the most famous tv show called BBC تريندنغ. in 2022 he resigned form BBC ARABIC and announce on his YouTube channel that he is starting a new tv show on ALJAZERA Arabic.
More about him :
Born : 6 June1978 (44 years old)
Citizenship : Syrian
Religion : Islam
Number of Children : 2
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