Munir Mawari

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Munir Mawari is an Arab-American journalist and a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.. He has worked with the Federal government of the United States, Voice of America, Asharq Al-Awsat[1]. Al Jazeera|Al-Jazeera, and Alaraby Al-Jadeed[2]. He is the author of two books[3], Collapse Scenario of Saleh Regime[4] and Dancing on the Heads of Snakes in Yemen[5]. Mawari is also a member of The Supreme National Authority for Monitoring the Implementation of the Outcomes of the National Dialogue headed by the President of Yemen[6]. He is currently working to create awareness about the situation in Yemen after the fall of the Saleh regime[7].

Early Life and Education

Munir Mawari (also known as Munir Al-Maweri and Muneer Almaori) was born in 1967 in Sana'a, Yemen, to Yahia Saleh and Dabia Mawari. He did his Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1988 from Yarmouk University|Yarmouk University, Jordan[8]. Mawari migrated to the United States in 1990, where he obtained the Certificate of English for Heritage Language Speakers from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in 2007. He completed his MBA from Western Governors University, Salt Lake City|Salt Lake City, Utah[9].

Career

Mawari began his career as a journalist in 1990 for the The Arab American News|Arab American News in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1992, he traveled back to Yemen to work for the official T.V. station of the Yemeni government. In 2000, he moved to Doha, Qatar, and became one of the founding members; as the Managing Editor Assistant for Al-Jazeera.net[10]. During his role, he supervised 16 reporters and developed a newscast[11]. In 2003, he joined the Voice of America as a Broadcasting Journalist. He later joined the Asharq Al-Awsat as the Arabic Correspondent in 2005. In 2007, he was hired by the U.S. government as an Arabic Analyst and was also awarded the David Boren award from the U.S. National Security Education Program (NSEP). His role was to conduct counterterrorism studies relevant to Middle Eastern countries[12]. Mawari is currently a human rights advocate, especially for the people of Yemen[13][14][15].

Banned for Human Rights

In October 2002, Mawari wrote an article titled "Yes to Liberating Iraq," published by Yedioth Ahronoth|Yediot Ahronot, an Israeli Daily[16]. He received criticism on the topic and the country of publication. In response, Mawari, who was initially invited to the First Sana'a Conference on Democracy, Human Rights, and the Role of the International Criminal Court in 2004, got his invitation canceled[17][18][19].

Exposing Corruption Scandals

Mawari has been writing articles for several Yemeni and Arabic media outlets, including the Mareb Press and Al-Masdar newspaper. His articles are published under his weekly column, "From Washington." One of his most famous articles was released in 2008 when he wrote about a U.S. company with whom the Yemeni government signed a deal. He reported that the corruption charges were placed on five nuclear reactors in Yemen, worth $ 15 billion. The deal also included the burial of nuclear waste within the country[20].

Mawari's Warning Regarding Yemen's Security Threats

After Middle Eastern foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration|Obama's 2008 speech to the Arab leaders in Cairo, Egypt, Mawari predicted the downfall of the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, and other leaders, including the Saleh of Yemen[21][22]. This was two years before the Arab Spring|Arab Spring Revolutions. Mawari, in an article titled "Terrorism Monitor," also warned the U.S. government regarding the security threats emerging from Yemen in response to the Saleh policies[23]. He reported that the U.S. realized that it had supported corrupt and terrorist Arab regimes, which amplified poverty and terrorism in the areas[24]. The Special Court, in absentia, sentenced Mawari to two years of imprisonment, and a lifetime ban from journalism in Yemen, on the charges of defaming Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh[25][26][27].

Mawari's Prediction in his Books

In December 2009, the Lebanese publishing house, Bissan published two books in the name of Munir Mawari. The books are titled "Collapse Scenario of Saleh Regime[4] and "Dancing on the Heads of Snakes in Yemen[5]. The books gained popularity due to having Mawari's prediction of the downfall of Ali Abdullah Saleh before the end of the 2013 presidential term, which happened during the Yemeni Revolution|Yemeni Revolution 2011[28][29].

Warning on Hosni Mubarak

In 2009, Mawari warned President Hosni Mubarak that change in Egypt was inevitable. Mawari suggested that resisting changes through oppression and tyranny could further open hidden corruption charges in his article. After the article, Mawari was put on Mubarak's government's blacklist and also got banned from entering Syria[11].

Awards and Accolades

  • In 2007, Mawari received an award from David Boren from the U.S. National Security Education Program (NSEP)[30]
  • In 2004, he received the Voice of America's Award of Achievement[11]
  • In 2002, he received the Aljazeera award of appreciation.

Personal Life

Mawari has two daughters and a son named Haitham, Rima, and Aya. Mawari also has his club named after him in Clubhouse App. He is passionate about the use of social media and uses them consistently. He is fluent in Arabic and English, familiar with French and Spanish.

References

  1. ↑ "Content listing". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  2. ↑ RIDENOUR, KRISTINA (2005). "Panel examines role of media in Middle East" (PDF). The Daily Titan.
  3. ↑ العرامي, المصدر أونلاين-ياسر. "المصدر أونلاين ينشر كتاب للصحفي منير الماوري عن: دولة الصالح وسيناريو ما قبل السقوط". المصدر أونلاين (in العربية). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mawari, Munir. دولة "الصالحوسيناريو السقوط.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mawari, Munir. Dancing on the Heads of Snakes in Yemen (PDF).
  6. ↑ "صدور قراري رئيس الجمهورية بإنشاء وتشكيل الهيئة الوطنية للرقابة على تنفيذ مخرجات الحوار". yemen-nic.info. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  7. ↑ "Reports on the Situation in Yemen". www.bic.org. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  8. ↑ "السنابل الفوج 9". sanabel.yu.edu.jo. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  9. ↑ Western Governors University. (2019). Retrieved from: https://www.wgu.edu/content/dam/web-sites/alumni/documents/2019-Grad-Name-Book.pdf
  10. ↑ Hussein, Karim. "The day I joined Al Jazeera Net".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Editor in Chief - Yemen Affairs". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  12. ↑ "The Ambassadors Magazine - January 2009 - SELECTED STUDIES". ambassadors.net. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  13. ↑ http://www.hichamalaouifoundation.org/events/from-political-activism-to-democratic-change-in-the-arab-world/
  14. ↑ "Center for Liberty in the Middle East - Powerbase". powerbase.info. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  15. ↑ https://theglobalobservatory.org/2014/02/without-international-support-yemen-could-slide-backwards/
  16. ↑ Boms, Nir. "Yemen's Facade of Freedom – Nir Boms". Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  17. ↑ "A slow start in search for democracy". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  18. ↑ Boms, Nir. "Yemen's Facade of Freedom – Nir Boms". Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  19. ↑ "Emma Bonino - YEMEN'S FACADE OF FREEDOM". www.emmabonino.it. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  20. ↑ "Heralded as a playwright, screenwriter, and director, Sir David Hare has enjoyed a professional career that has stretched across more than 40 years. His time in the theater has been marked by several triumphs, including Plenty, The Blue Room, and Stuff Happens, and in 2011 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize for his thought-provoking and politically engaging oeuvre. Hare's transition to film began in earnest in the 1980s when he wrote and directed Wetherby (1985), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Paris by Night (1988), and Strapless (1989). But a growing dissatisfaction with his films inspired him to refocus on theater, where he wrote his celebrated trilogy of plays about British life—Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, and The Absence of War—in the early 1990s. Thankfully, Hare returned to screenplays with his terrific script for Louis Malle's Damage (1992), a portrait of obsessive, doomed love based on Josephine Hart's novel. More recently, he has received Academy Award nominations for his adapted screenplays for The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008), which won, respectively, Nicole Kidman and Kate Winslet the Oscar for Best Actress. He also worked to adapt author Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel, The Corrections, into a feature film. His plays Plenty and The Secret Rapture have been adapted into films, and in 2011 he wrote and directed the conspiracy thriller Page Eight, which starred Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, and Michael Gambon.", FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Routledge, pp. 107–108, 2013-12-17, ISBN 978-0-240-82485-7, retrieved 2022-01-05
  21. ↑ العائلية, من باراك إلى قادة العرب: لا تتوقعوا مني دعم مشاريعكم. "من باراك إلى قادة العرب: لا تتوقعوا مني دعم مشاريعكم العائلية". مأرب برس (in العربية). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  22. ↑ "Reformist Arab Writers Write Satirical Letters from Obama to Arab Leaders". MEMRI. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  23. ↑ "Arab Liberal Writer: Blames Arab Media for Hatred of the U.S." MEMRI. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  24. ↑ "Yemen After the Arab Spring: From Revolution to Disintegration?". Jamestown. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  25. ↑ "Yemen After the Arab Spring: From Revolution to Disintegration?". Jamestown. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  26. ↑ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists". Refworld. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  27. ↑ "Attacks on the Press 2009: Yemen". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  28. ↑ DeYoung, Karen (2011). "Yemen president Saleh to step down; Bahrain acknowledges that crackdown used torture, excessive force".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ↑ خاص, المصدر أونلاين-. "الزميل الماوري يصدر كتابين يتناولان حاضر اليمن ومستقبله". المصدر أونلاين (in العربية). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  30. ↑ "Home | nsepgov". www.nsep.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-05.

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