Sameh Akram Habeeb

Who is Sameh Akram Habeeb?

Sameh A. Habeeb is a journalist and Business management expert based in the UK. He worked as a reporter and news producer in the Middle East.

In 2007, Sameh started to intensify his media work as the siege became tougher in Gaza. He launched his widely read blog, Gaza Today, the Untold Story, late in 2007. Between 2007 and 2008 he published tens of articles, photo stories, and features, and blogged on a daily basis. The same year, he started to take photos in Gaza that only focused on humanitarian conditions. His photos were shown on Sky NewsSky New and published internationally. In April 2008, Habeeb carried out a speaking tour across Italy, lecturing at 25 meetings in universities, colleges and city councils, to speak about the conditions in Gaza.

During the Gaza war in winter 2009, he was often the only source of news, as Israel had banned international reporting from inside the strip. He reported for a number of media outlets like the Real News, INN World Report and others, and was a contributing reporter for BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, ABC, CBC, CNN, Real News and tens of other media outlets on an hourly basis. Working under terrible conditions during the war, he worked as a field reporter with Netwerk TV of the Netherlands as well as the Vandakh, where he did various reports about the war, which were nominated to film festivals in the Netherlands in 2010.