Ali Hashem

Ali Hashem (علي هاسم) is a Lebanese journalist who previously served as a correspondent at Al Jazeera Network. Hashem resigned from the Qatari channel only one year after joining its office in Beirut in protest over "bias" reporting of the Syrian crisis, accusing the Qatari government of pushing Al Jazeera towards "media [...]".

On March 9, 2012, he announced his resignation on Twitter but didn't give reasons, but Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published a story about the resignation.

Birth and student life

Ali was born in Lebanese town of Nakoura in 1980 and raised up in the West African state of Sierra Leone.

Journalism

Al Manar

At Al Manar TV Ali Hashem reported the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. He was based in the South Lebanese city of Tyre and covered several incidents that took place during the war. After the war Hashem came back to Beirut where he was shot by a sniper during riots but he survived with injuries.

BBC

In 2007 Ali joined BBC after a couple of months with newly launched Al Jazeera English language channel. At BBC Hashem reported from various locations and covered several stories, later on he produced and presented a weekly flagship program named the commission.

Al Jazeera

During the Libya war he reported from East Libya.

References

ar:علي هاشم