Background
He was born in the city of Samanoud, in Egypt, and graduated from the Mansoura University, with a bachelor"s degree in arts
He was born in the city of Samanoud, in Egypt, and graduated from the Mansoura University, with a bachelor"s degree in arts
He is one of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera"s prominent journalists. He presents Bela Hodod (بلا حدود, Arabic for "without frontiers"), an Arab live television talk show from Cairo since 1999, which airs on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera Channel weekly. He also presents the program Shahed Ala First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Asr.
In 2009, he published the book Inside Fallujah: the Unembedded Story.
His career started as a war correspondent. He covered the war in Afghanistan between 1987 and 1999, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994 and the war in Iraq in 2004.
He now leads two talk shows which are broadcast on First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Jazeera television: in addition to "Without Frontiers", he also presents the program "Witness on the Age". Both programs are widely viewed in the Arab World.
Mansour has openly criticized the current al-Sisi government.
He has also criticised the Muslim Brotherhood. Mansour was criticized on social media after he interviewed the leader of al-Nusra Front, and a Syrian pilot captive held by the al-Nusra Front. In August 2014, Cairo"s criminal court accused Mansour of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011.
Mansour denied the charges, and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera said the accusations were false.
Mansour was convicted in absentia in October and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera called the ruling unjust, and an effort to silence journalists.
Interpol refused to issue a warrant. On June 20, 2015, Mansour was arrested at Berlin Tegel Airport and held by German police at the request of the Egyptian government, provoking demonstrations in Germany until his release.
Reporters Without Borders called Mansour"s detention “Egypt’s terrible revenge against journalists that cross the regime,” and stated that Berlin was threatening to put itself "at the service of a dictatorial regime." Mansour was released on June 22.
According to Hans-Eduard Busemann of Reuters, "Mansour"s case has put Germany in an awkward position as it tries to balance business interests and human rights.".
Apart from his skills as interviewer in the programs he conducts, Ahmed Mansour has become famous because of his outspoken political views.
Quotations: “Egypt’s terrible revenge against journalists that cross the regime,”.