Akram al-Ahmed is a Syrian journalist who worked in Idlib until February 2019. He recently had to leave the region after the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that emerged from the remnants of al-Qaida took over. In 2013 al-Ahmed was one of the founders of the “Syrian Press Center”, which trains journalists for “alternative media” beyond the control of the regime in Syria and established an office in Idlib. In 2017 he was heavily involved in founding the committee of the “Ethical Charter for Syrian Media”, to which over 40 Syrian media organizations belong. From 2011 to 2018 al-Ahmad was a member of the civil-society initiative “Civil Peace Committee” in Hama. Before the Syrian Revolution he studied journalism in Damascus and worked as an editor at the newspaper Tishreen.
He spoke with historian and political scientist Harald Etzbach, who works as a translator and journalist and publishes on issues relating to the Middle East and US foreign policy.
