Belabbes Benkredda
Founding Director of the Munathara Initiative, Fellow at Yale University
- Role
- Founding Director at Munathara Initiative
- Location
- New Haven, CT, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Belabbes Benkredda
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Experience
Founding Director
Jan 2011 — Present
Founding Director: The Munathara Initiative (Washington, DC / Tunis, speaker, writer, television commentator• Initiated the Arab world’s first-ever presidential debates in Tunisia in 2019, broadcast on 14 TV channels simultaneously and witnessed live by 78% of registered voters• Developed Munathara’s flagship show #DDX, an Arabic TV program at the intersection of artistic expression and social change, attracting 14 million online views across three episodes• Created Musabaqat Munathara, a video debate platform with subscribers across the Middle East• Developed the concept and Munathara model to highlight underrepresented Arab voices through online debates, on-the ground workshops, and TV debates• Managed more than 40 televised debate productions and broadcasts from Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, the UAE and Yemen• Op-ed author and columnist on Arab affairs, democracy and the public sphere• Commentator in various international TV and print media, including CNN, BBC, New York Times, France 24, Spiegel, FAZ, Aljazeera, Al Roya TV, and Dubai TV
Education
University of Exeter
Master's degree, Middle East Politics
Goethe University Frankfurt
Undergraduate studies in International Relations and Philosophy of Law
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