Ahmed Ashour

Bio - Ahmed Ashour - Investigative journalist and Editor

His investigations have exposed the smuggling of Yemeni antiquities to Europe and Gulf countries during the war, the trafficking of Captagon from Syria to Libya, the illegal trade in rare falcons between Libya and Gulf states, illicit foreign assets owned by influential figures in the former Egyptian and Sudanese regimes, and the use of advanced weapons—developed with European research support—in Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza.

He has supervised investigations at ARIJ that were nominated for and won several international and regional awards. He also contributed to developing the methodology for investigating disinformation campaigns in 2025, and to the guide “Climate Justice – An Investigative Lens” (2024), a collaboration between ARIJ and Internews. Additionally, he contributed to the study “The State of Disinformation and Fact-Checking in the Global South,” in partnership between ARIJ and the South African universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. He also managed the Edit and Verify project launched by the Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN) from ARIJ in 2022, and the “Open Climate Journalism Initiative” in collaboration between ARIJ and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in 2023.