Mohamed Amjahid محمد أمجاهد

In English

Mohamed Amjahid was born in 1988 in Frankfurt am Main as the son of so-called guest workers. He attended school in Morocco until completing his Abitur. He studied political science in Berlin and Cairo and conducted research on various anthropological projects in North Africa. Even during his studies, he worked as a journalist, including for the Frankfurter Rundschau and Deutschlandfunk. After completing his master’s degree, Amjahid completed a journalistic traineeship at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin. He then worked as a political reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin.

He researches and writes as a freelance investigative journalist for outlets including Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, RBB, SWR, and WDR. He is also a culinary columnist for Monopol Magazine and Zeit Magazin Online. He is currently working on several new book projects. Both anthropologically and journalistically, his focus is on human rights (particularly police violence), equality, and societal upheavals in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. On Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky, he writes under the handle @m_amjahid.

Non fiction books

Transparency

I do not take assignments from individuals, parties, or organizations that are racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, ableist, far-right, or otherwise extremist. I define the criteria for this myself and ask to be contacted if I am unaware of information regarding specific actors.

In general, I do not moderate events for political parties, government institutions, or for-profit companies or associations. This is to prevent my participation being used for (political) advertising purposes. However, I do, for example, participate as a discussant in events organized by party-affiliated foundations, deciding on a case-by-case basis whether to take part.

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I am a member of Verdi and of the Neue Deutsche Medienmacher*innen. I regularly serve as a jury member for the Alexander-Rhomberg Prize for Emerging Journalism and the Franco-German Journalism Prize. I do not belong to any political party. I work freelance for various media outlets, publishers, and public broadcasting institutions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Inquiries and Contact

Please send me inquiries only via the form under the menu item “Inquiries and Contact” (Anfragen und Kontakt). You are welcome to write to me in German, English, French, Arabic, Spanish, or Italian. For inquiries and information in other languages, I will gladly arrange a translation.