Mahmoud Abo Bakr

• Produce news bulletins and news script for TV news shows as well as Guiding reporters and evaluating news to work on it in it as TV PKG or as topic in the news bulletins.

Based in Cairo, Egypt but traveling regionally, I work for the BBC Arabic service, covering all beats: political, economic, cultural and major news events, to produce news reports for the BBC television and digital, radio as well as writing online articles and TV news script.

I am responsible for newsgathering, monitoring the media, analyzing content to gauge news value, arranging interviews and securing access to events, In addition to producing & writing video stories for the digital and the website.

• In Libya 2012, I conducted interviews with militia groups and political leaders in the aftermath of the Libyan uprising.
• In 2014, traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border one km away from the city of Kobani/ Ayn al-Arab, where I stayed for over a month to cover the fighting between Kurdish fighters and ISIS.
• In 2016, traveled to Saudi Arabia to cover the Haj season, a year after the human stampede which caused the death of hundreds of pilgrims and raised tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
• Also in 2016, I traveled to Erbil north of Iraq the capital city of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, to cover the Mosul military operation to take back Mosul two years after it fell under ISIS control, I was embedded with the Iraqi force in the villages of Fadiliyah, six KM from Mosul, managing to interview local military leaders and the commander of the IEDs unit, I also filmed with the Kurdish forces on the threat of ISIS snipers attempting to take control of the strategic city of Kirkuk.
• In September 2019, traveled to Tunisia, cover the Tunisian presidential elections, I was responsible for live coverage of the presidential elections, as well as produce TV/Digital stories.
• In June 2019, traveled to Sudan for a month to cover events in Khartoum, where I produced series for TV/Digital stories on events in Sudan, protests and rebels s demands, as well as negotiations between Forces of Freedom and Change opposition (FFC) and Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC).

Acted as the BBC’s Arabic TV newsroom executive producer in the BBC’s headquarters in London, UK carrying out the following tasks: Writing news bulletins and news script for TV news shows; developing expert knowledge of technical TV and radio production programs such as Final Cut, Field video production equipment, Audio Adobe Edition and ENPS new.

Produce TV news bulletins for Asharq News HQ in Dubai, carrying out the following tasks: Writing news bulletins and news script for TV news shows; developing expert knowledge of technical TV production programs such iNEWS and VIZ STORY & MCUX.