Feras Kilani

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Feras Kilani
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Born (1976-04-02) 2 April 1976 (age 48)
Damascus
NationalityBritish
EducationPhilosophy, University of Damascus
Occupation(s)Special correspondent, film maker
Employer BBC
AwardsThe Press Freedom Award, International Media Awards Arab Journalism Award, Shortlisted to Frontline Club award
kilani Joined Iraqi Snipers as they advanced to Old City of Mosul 2017-08-11-PHOTO-00007906.jpg
kilani Joined Iraqi Snipers as they advanced to Old City of Mosul

Feras Kilani (born 2 April 1976) is a Palestinian-British journalist and film maker, and BBC Arabic's special correspondent. [1] [2] [3] [ citation needed ]He is best known for his coverage in war-zones in the Middle East, specifically reporting from Libya, Iraq and Syria [4] [5] [6]

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Career

He started his media career in 1995, in the Syrian State TV in Damascus where he worked as a Director, and documentary maker [7] until 2006, when he left to join Al Bayan in United Arab Emirates. [8]

Kilani joined BBC World Service in 2009. During his time at the BBC, he was News Editor for 2 of BBC Arabic's flagship programmes, World at One and the Arabic version of Newsnight. [9]

Libya uprising

On 8 March 2011, while reporting on the Libya uprising for BBC Arabic TV, Kilani was picked up at an army roadblock near Tripoli along with two BBC colleagues. They were imprisoned, beaten and subject to mock executions at Khalat al-Farjan farm behind the Yarmouk headquarters just outside Tripoli. After 22 hours they were released. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Syrian conflict

Kilani has covered the Syrian conflict for the BBC since it started in 2011. [14] [15] [16]

In 2016, he got exclusive access to Islamic State held city of Manbij, making him the first international journalist to get inside the city since the start of the battle to force IS out. [17] [18] [19]

Battle of Mosul

In November 2016, during his coverage for the Battle of Mosul (2016–17) in Iraq, Feras Kilani and cameraman Marek Polaszewski were following soldiers going door to door to clear homes of suspected militants in the city when a car bomb exploded. Video footage showed IS launching a full attack in the confusion that follows. [20] [21] [22]

Kilani said it took three hours for the Iraqi forces to contain the attack. [23] [24]

Documentaries

Kilani directed multiple documentaries during his career. Most of his work with Syrian State TV was not archived, but the documentaries he produced for PBS and the BBC were.

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