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Walid Batrawi, Executive Board Member, International Press Institute (IPI) Batrawi is an award-winning journalist, media and communication expert and trainer currently based in Toronto. With over two decades of experience and a degree of MA in Mass Communication, Batrawi has built experience across television, radio, print and online media as well as management of media development projects with organizations based in the Middle East and around the world. From March 2012 until July 2017, he served as a Country Director in the Palestinian Territories with BBC Media Action. Prior to that, Batrawi worked as the Deputy Chief of Party for Internews Network in Palestine. From December 2007 through January 2010, Batrawi was a Project Director for the BBC World Service Trust (BBC Media Action). Before Al-Jazeera English went on air, Batrawi joined the team as a correspondent in the West Bank for 18 months, succeeding his work for three years as a correspondent for BBC Arabic Service Radio. In 2003, the European Commission and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) named Batrawi winner of the IFJ’s 2003 Natali Prize for “Excellence in reporting Human Rights, Democracy and Development” in the category of the Arab World, Iran and Israel.
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"I was born here"
Filmed with an iPhone, and using the Kinemaster app for his edit, Palestinian freelance journalist and trainer, Walid Batrawi’s film about his 50th birthday journey to his birthplace of Jerusalem gave us a sense of the city and what it means to him.
Helen Scott, mojo judge and editorial associate for Thomson Foundation, described the film as "intensely personal and evoking the wider story of the conflict and how it affects the people who would like to call it home. It was well shot with a clearly defined narrative.”
Fellow judge and mojo trainer for the foundation, Deborah Kelly, commented: “Wow, I loved this. The pace was great. It was told gently, without criticism but power. It was in the first person, technically interesting and the final shot was lovely as he revealed himself.”
