Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Name: Osama Mahmoud El-Sherif

Nationality: Jordanian

Material Status: Married, two children

Place and Date of Birth: Jerusalem, 1960.

Academic:

• 1982: Bachelor of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
• 1978: Freshman year at New England College, Sussex, England. Area: Mass Communications.
• 1977/78: Finished secondary school in Amman, Jordan.
• 1973/74: Finished intermediary school in Doha, Qatar.

Professional:

• 1998 to present: Editor-In-Chief of Arabia.com, the leading arab portal.
• January 1990 to 1998: Publisher and Chief Editor of The Star, Jordan’s only English-language weekly. In 1998, Chief Editor, The Star.

• April 1994 to 1998: Publisher of BYTE Middle East, General Manager of Arabian Communications Co. (ACP), a UK registered publishing company of the Arabic edition of the leading global Information Technology magazine BYTE.

• August 1988 to present: Owner and President of Media Services International (Info-Media); a private pan-Arab media services agency.

• May 1988 to October 1988:Chief Editor of Ad-Dustour Arabic daily in Amman.

• July 1986 to September 1988: Chief Editor of The Jerusalem Star weekly in Amman.

• December 1983 to July 1986: Editor of The Jerusalem Star weekly in Amman.

• July 1982 to December 1983: Reporter, sub-editor at The Jerusalem Star weekly in Amman.

• January 1983 to September 1988: WorldPaper, Boston, Middle East correspondent. Currently Middle East associates editor of WorldPaper.

• April-June 1982: Reporter at Bolivar Daily News, Missouri, USA.

• December 1980 to May 1982: Reporter/sub-editor at The Missourian daily newspaper, Columbia, USA.

• September 1979 to May 1982: Roving correspondent for Ad Dustour Arabic daily in the United States.

Others:

Worked as an editorial consultant to Al Sharq Arabic daily in Doha, Qatar, March-April 1989. And as Editorial Consultant to The Gulf Today, Sharjah, 1998.

Columnist for more than 12 years for The Jerusalem Star and The Star, Amman, Jordan.