The right fit for the team: Doaa Soliman Since March, Doaa Soliman (32) has been the head of DW’s Arabic editorial team, which is responsible for online content. She’s just the right fit for the culturally diverse team in Bonn as it aims to produce more web videos and enhance the division’s social media presence with the goal of reaching an even larger audience. “In particular, we want to tell more exclusive stories from the region and in doing so, set the tone,” Soliman said. Born in Egypt, Doaa Soliman studied journalism in Cairo and wrote for The Egyptian Gazette, the oldest English-language newspaper in the Middle East. In 2011 she came to Germany for the first time on
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a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for her Master’s studies. She had already learned a lot about media usage in her home country while working with the BBC. She joined the German foreign broadcaster in 2017 and was based in Berlin until March this year. “Thanks to its reliable reporting, DW enjoys a high reputation in the Arab countries,” she said. As a journalist, she particularly appreciates the freedom that DW offers her. “This enables me to develop ideas and tell stories that I would otherwise not be able to tell.”
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