Wael Dabbous

Wael Dabbous is a UK-based journalist and Emmy Award-winning director with a background in directing and producing highly impactful non-fiction content. He has worked on a number of documentaries, including:

Frontline: Syria Undercover : Together with Ramita Navai, Dabbous was awarded an Emmy for this film. Broadcast on PBS in the US, this documentary went undercover to show the reality of the uprising in Syria.
Manhunt: Closing in on a British Paedophile : This documentary tells the story of the hunt for Simon Harris, a British paedophile who was living in Kenya. Harris was eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Dabbous has also been associated with a number of other documentary films broadcast on television, including documentaries on child prisoners in Burundi, broadcast on Channel 4 on free-to-air television in the UK
Dabbous attended Moulsham High School in Chelmsford, Essex, in England.
He has been a guest speaker at a number of events, including the Rory Peck Trust and UK / Europe Network Meeting of DART Centre.