Mohamed Amjahid

Mohamed Amjahid (Arabic: محمد أمجاهد), born 1988 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German-Moroccan journalist und author. His non-fiction debut Unter Weißen ("Amongst Whites") (2017) and the German bestseller Der weiße Fleck ("The white spot") (2021) deal with racism. His newest non-fiction work Alles nur Einzelfälle? ("All just one-off cases?") (2024) is based on his decade-long investigative research surrounding the system behind police violence.
==Life==
Amjahid was born to Moroccan migrant workers, his father worked as an industrial worker and his mother as a cleaner. He moved to Morocco with his parents and two siblings in 1995, where he attended school. He returned to Germany in 2007 and began studying political science at Free University of Berlin, which he completed in 2014.
He lives in Berlin-Neukölln. In addition to Moroccan nationality, he also possesses German citizenship..Die ganze Härte der Pandemie schule-ohne-rassismus-bw.de He considers himself a „queer Person“Die Frage zur Homosexualität taz.de, March 18th 2021 and atheist.Rassismus im Alltag: "Das Gift ist längst in die Mitte der Gesellschaft gesickert" stern.de, February 27th 2021 In 2020 he was awarded the Thomas-Mann-scholarship in Los Angeles to research on the Gender pay gap. 2022 he recieved another scholarship from the Thomas Mann House.
==Journalistic Work==
After completing his journalistic training at Tagesspiegel from 2014 until 2016 he became editor for Zeitmagazin in 2016 and editor for the politics department at Die Zeit. As of 2020 he is a freelance journalist.Mohamed Amjahid zeit.de Between 2020 and 2023 he wrote a biweekly column called Die Nafrichten in the newspaper Die Tageszeitung|taz. The titel is a combination of the ethnophaulism „Nafri“ and the German word news ("Nachrichten").Die Nafrichten taz.de For the radio broadcaster RBB he is a regular gust for the radio column Question of the day on Radio 3. Additionally he writes freelance for large German media outlets such as Der Spiegel, die Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the broadcasters RBB or WDR
He also regularly publishes culinary texts in respective columns. For the Monopol magazine under Mohameds Küche ("Mohamed's kitchen") and for Zeit Magazin Online under Küchenatlas ("kitchen atlas"), where he researches and narrates the history of individual ingredients.
==Books and Discourse==
In his 2017 book titled Unter Weißen: Was es heißt, privilegiert zu sein (“Amongst whites: what it means to be privileged”) he addresses various forms of everyday racism, which people of color are exposed to in a white majority society. He uses the term biodeutsch [“organic German”] for ethnic Germans without a so-called "migration background". His 2021 book Der weiße Fleck: Eine Anleitung zu antirassistischem Denken ("The white spot: a manual for anti-racist thinking") talks extensively about the topic of anti-racism.
In 2022 his third book Let's Talk about Sex, Habibi was published. In it, he deals with matters surrounding love and desire in North Africa, building on his travels in the region from Casablanca to Cairo as a news reporter.
In his 2024 book Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt? [“All just one-off cases? The system behind police violence”] Amjahid combines his own decade-long investigative research with scientific findings to shed light on the problems of police in Germany, Austria and SwitzerlandSelina Hellfritsch im Gespräch mit Mohamed Amjahid: Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt in Deutschland, siegessaeule.de, September 26th 2024, Retrieved October 2nd 2024.
==Awards==
* 2013: Åke Blomström prize from the European Broadcasting Union-organized International Feature Conference (IFC) for the radio feature Grüß’ mir mein geliebtes Syrien ("Say hi to my beloved Syria for me"), released by the Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB)ABA 2013 – Winners Ake Blomstrom Award, Notification from the IFC on May 22nd 2013, Retrieved July 30th 2018
* 2014: 3rd place KAUSA Medienpreis in the category Text for Die Akte Amjahid ("The file Amjahid"), published in Der Tagesspiegel Website of KAUSA media prize, retrieved July 30th 2018</ref>
* 2014: Alexander-Rhomberg-Preis for young journalists
* 2017: Mediaprize from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (with Gero von Randow) in the categroy Magazine for Sehnsucht ohne Ort? Von wegen ("Longing without place? As if"), published in Die Zeit (PDF), Press release from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria on May 30th 2017, Retrieved July 30th 2018</ref>
* 2017: German Reporter Prize in the category investigation for Ein Anschlag ist zu erwarten ("An attack is to be expected")
* 2018: Nannen prize in the category best investigativ achievement for Ein Anschlag ist zu erwarten
* 2023: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis in the categorybest podcast for 17 Tage Scheitern ("17 days of failure"), published by WDR
==Works==
* Unter Weißen: Was es heißt, privilegiert zu sein. Hanser Berlin, München 2017, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-446-25472-5.
* Der weiße Fleck: Eine Anleitung zu antirassistischem Denken. Piper Verlag, München 2021, 224 pages, ISBN 978-3-492-06216-9.
* Let’s talk about Sex, Habibi. Liebe und Begehren von Casablanca bis Kairo. Piper Verlag, München 2022, 224 pages, ISBN 978-3-492-60202-0
* Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt. Piper Verlag, München 2024, 352 pages, ISBN 978-3-492-06520-7.
==Weblinks==
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* Personal website
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