Ghada Oueiss: Al-Jazeera’s mouthpiece stirring anger against Washington

Ahmed Adel

Qatari network Al-Jazeera has been working to stoke the scene in the United States by supporting the protests that erupted after George Floyd was killed while being arrested by police in Minneapolis on May 25, condemning the killing in an attempt to influence the upcoming US presidential election in November.

One of Al-Jazeera’s dubious figures is Lebanese broadcaster Ghada Oueiss, who has accused the American authorities of racism. On June 5, she posted on Facebook, “The American uprising has been able to gather all spectrums of American people, from blacks, whites and minorities.”

On June 6, Oueiss shared a report on Facebook by London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi entitled “Roots of Racism in the United States and the Long Course of Uprooting It”, which discussed the long history of racism in Washington, emphasizing that racism is deeply rooted in American society and its removal requires many decades of practice and education. Oueiss also utilizes Twitter to post against US President Donald Trump.

Ghada Karam Oueiss was born in Beirut in November 1977. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in media from Lebanese University in 1999 and then worked for Voice of Lebanon Radio from 1999-2000. She then worked as a journalist and correspondent for the magazine Al-Afkar from 2000-2001, before working as a broadcaster and field correspondent for Al-Jadeed TV from 2001-2004. She attended a training course with the BBC in London in 2004, followed by another with the BBC in Beirut in 2005. She also worked as a broadcaster and correspondent for the Lebanese channel ANB from 2004 to 2006.

Oueiss joined Al-Jazeera as a news and program broadcaster on April 26, 2006 and became famous for her coverage of a number of events, including the Lebanese National Dialogue Conference held in Doha in May 2008 and events in Sudan from Khartoum in June 2008. She also entered the Gaza Strip with Al-Jazeera following the Israeli war, where she provided daily special coverage of the post-war situation for nearly a month during January-February 2009.

She provided special coverage for the referendum on the secession of South Sudan from Khartoum, during which she held a live interview with ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in January 2011. She also covered the presidential election in Yemen in February 2012, where she conducted the first interview with Lieutenant-General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, commander of 1st Armored Division.