Arab Media Watch Directors

Muna Nashashibi

AMW director Muna Nashashibi has a degree in law and a postgraduate degree in business administration. She has worked at the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Syrian Chamber of Commerce, and the Central Bank of Kuwait.

A lifelong pan-Arab activist, she is chairwoman of the Women's Coalition for Palestine, director of the British-Syrian Society, a member of the board of trustees for Deir Yassin Remembered and the UK Friends of the Diocese of Jerusalem, a member of the Next Century Foundation's media group, and a member of the Women's National Commission of Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Amos Trust. She is fluent in English and Arabic.

Muna can be reached at muna@arabmediawatch.com

Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi

AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi co-founded the organisation in 2000 after completing his MA in International Journalism at City University, during which he studied the way the media reported the Arab world, saw much need for improvement, but could not find a group that was working to remedy this.

Born in Kuwait to a Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese Muslim father and a Syrian-Iraqi Christian mother, he has worked and trained at such organisations as Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, the UN Development Programme in Palestine, the Middle East Broadcasting Centre, and the Middle East Economic Survey in Cyprus.

He is a regular contributor to the Guardian's Comment is Free section, and he presents the weekly programme Middle East Today on Press TV. His writings are published extensively, he is interviewed regularly on TV and radio, and he is often invited to speak and debate at universities and colleges.

Sharif can be reached at sharif@arabmediawatch.com