In his two decades of experience, media strategist and executive Ehab Al Shihabi has worked as a consultant to major international corporations, media organizations, and cable networks. Currently an advisor to the director general of Al Jazeera Media Network, he accepted his first position with the company in 2006 and went on to serve as a driving force behind the establishment of Al Jazeera America. Ehab Al Shihabi has also served as Al Jazeera’s executive director of international operations with responsibility for overseeing the work of dozens of news bureaus.
Today, Mr. Al Shihabi also holds a senior fellowship with the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The Center’s namesake, one of the most noted American journalists of the 20th century, is perhaps best remembered for his dramatic live broadcasts as a witness to history during the years of World War II.
Mr. Murrow, who died shortly after his 57th birthday in 1965, was widely renowned as a courageous and outspoken defender of free speech. He even took on Senator Joseph McCarthy by issuing a report dedicated to exposing the anti-Communist politician’s questionable tactics during the “Red Scare” years of the 1950s.
Mr. Murrow hosted the television program Person to Person for seven years before accepting President John F. Kennedy’s appointment as director of the United States Information Agency in 1961.
