The QUEEN Posted May 25, 2011 Report Posted May 25, 2011 Nothing prepared us for what we saw happening across the Arab world this year. One network knew damn well how to report a revolution. Michael Paterniti takes us behind the cameras at Al JazeeraOn a cold March evening in Manhattan, Ayman Mohyeldin rode in the back of a black Lincoln Town Car on his way to an appearance on The Colbert Report. Mohyeldin (pronounced moh-hee-deen) is the Cairo correspondent for Al Jazeera English, which helps explain two things: (1) accustomed to the temperate winters of the Triumphant City along the lazy Nile, he was sorely underdressed for the windy stabs of Manhattan, and (2) after his network's critically acclaimed coverage of the Egyptian uprising, he was in town to take his star turn on Stephen Colbert's hot seat, constituting what promised to be a pop-cultural coming-out for Al Jazeera in the United States. Hunkered over his BlackBerry as the passing lights of the city tracered overhead, Mohyeldin kept up an evening-long ticker of e-mails and tweets to his 30,000-plus friends and followers. This is gonna be crazy, he pecked. Oh boy...bracing myself for a grilling... Though Mohyeldin's journalistic reputation continues to grow—born in Egypt, raised in Michigan, started as a gofer for NBC News, reared as a producer at CNN, first appeared on-camera for Al Jazeera in 2006—his is hardly a household name, not in America at least. And yet he's the closest the network has to some rough approximation of an Anderson Cooper, good-looking, with a boyish air of derring-do. While his Facebook fan page debates his looks versus his talent—You can talk for hours, dear, and one never tires looking at you, writes one breathless female—the 32-year-old journalist was one of the few international reporters on the ground in Gaza in 2008 when Israel unleashed a barrage of air assaults that, by the time the fighting ended in 2009, would leave nearly 1,500 dead, many of them civilians. He's interviewed Qaddafi and Bush. And after a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire—a biblical act of protest that, ironically, was digitally projected to the world, catalyzing the Tunisian uprising—Mohyeldin went to Bouazizi's village to file a report, then stayed on in Tunis, which is where he was when the Egyptian protests first flared in Tahrir Square. With an eye on the Twitter feed—the numbers of protesters kept growing, 10,000...30,000...50,000!—Mohyeldin hurried home to Cairo's Al Jazeera bureau, a slightly shabby three-room setup a short walk from the square, where already a handful of crews were at work, before crashing at his apartment in the tony Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek. In the rush of unfolding events, the Egyptian government had begun to cut off Internet service, an amazing feat in itself, and were moving to cut Al Jazeera's signal. Mohyeldin's first order of business was to go out and secure a vantage point from which to capture the action in Tahrir, one that would be good for live feeds. After a number of failed attempts to persuade people to open their well-perched patios to an Al Jazeera crew—the paranoia about reprisals was rife—he tried an eight-story apartment building, talked his way past the doorman, and caught the rickety elevator to the top floor. There, a door drew back to reveal a disheveled man, pot-bellied, wild-haired, wearing a Che T-shirt that read REVOLUTION. Behind the man lay a huge, cluttered apartment. "Who the hell are you?" he said. "Do you want to make television history?" Mohyeldin had asked. In subsequent days, Al Jazeera's crews hustled to possess the story, giving narrative shape to the rise and resolve of the moral flash mob, to the armed clashes, to the ensuing capitulation of the military, which finally led to the implosion of a dictatorship. Before it was over, seven Al Jazeera English staff had been detained, including Mohyeldin. ("It's absurd for me to talk about it," he says of his detention. "Al Jazeera journalists have been killed, spent years at Guantánamo, been harassed and beaten and groped, and I spent nine hours in a holding cell.") [url=http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201106/al-jazeera-english-ayman-mohyeldin-michael-paterniti?printable=true]http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201106/al-jazeera-english-ayman-mohyeldin-michael-paterniti?printable=true[/url]
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