Khaled Diab is an award-winning journalist, blogger and writer who has been based in Tunis, Jerusalem, Brussels, Geneva and Cairo. Khaled also gives talks and is regularly interviewed by the print and audiovisual media.
Khaled Diab is the author of two books: Islam for the Politically Incorrect (2017) and Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land (2014).
In 2014, the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded Khaled its Mediterranean Journalist Award in the press category. This website, The Chronikler, won the 2012 Best of the Blogs (BOBs) for the best English-language blog. Khaled was longlisted for the Orwell journalism prize in 2020.
In addition, Khaled works as communications director for an environmental NGO based in Brussels.
He has also worked as a communications consultant to intergovernmental organisations, such as the EU and the UN, as well as civil society.
Khaled lives with his beautiful and brilliant wife, Katleen, who works in humanitarian aid. The foursome is completed by Iskander, their smart, creative and artistic son, and Sky, their mischievous and footballing cat.
Egyptian by birth, Khaled’s life has been divided between the Middle East and Europe. He grew up in Egypt and the UK, and has lived in Belgium, on and off, since 2001. He holds dual Egyptian-Belgian nationality.
French retailer Carrefour and its local partner will open two stores in Egypt in 2002, undeterred by British supermarket chain Sainsbury's decision to pull out ... Read more.
The United States aid agency (USAID) is prescribing a new formula of "trade not aid" on its silver jubilee in Egypt. And as aid declines, President Hosni Mubara... Read more.
An Egyptian tour guide has taken four German tourists hostage in southern Egypt to try to use them as bargaining chips in a child-custody dispute with his Germa... Read more.
Egypt's largest cement company Suez Cement may have trouble drumming up interest for its planned sale of a minority stake to a foreign strategic investor.... Read more.
Telecom Egypt's chairman has said he would seek a strategic partnership with an international mobile telephone operator via a mid-year tender to prepare the com... Read more.
Egypt's biggest private bank CIB is expected to post net profit growth of 5-10% for the calendar year 2000, despite high provisions and dividend payouts, analys... Read more.
A tomb dating back to the reign of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep IV in the 14th century BC has been discovered in the Giza suburb of Saqqara.... Read more.
ancy the black Cadillac owned by Egypt's former President Gamal Abdel-Nasser? Or the gold-fitted white Rolls Royce used by the late Shah of Iran?... Read more.
Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Obeid said the Central Bank would set and reinforce "safe limits" to stem the local pound's slide against the dollar and restore st... Read more.
A new $100 million internet service provider will give users in Egypt free access to the Internet for the first time, said the company's chairman.... Read more.