Walid Saqaf
Associate Professor In Journalism
Doha, Qatar
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Top SchoolWalid Saqaf is an Associate Professor in Journalism and a researcher-developer who blends a decade of academic leadership with hands-on software entrepreneurship in digital media, big data and blockchain. Based in Doha, he teaches and researches how emerging technologies reshape journalism, with a regional focus on the Middle East, while also contributing to blockchain scholarship as an associate editor. He founded YemenPortal.net and the alkasir censorship-circumvention project, demonstrating long-standing practical experience building tools for news indexing, Arabic text processing and Internet freedom. His background as a journalist and former editor-in-chief gives him rare domain fluency across reporting, newsroom operations and technical system design. Active in international policy and civil-society tech initiatives, he has held roles with ICANN, the Internet Society and IEEE, bridging research, governance and development. He holds a PhD in Communication and Media Studies and a BSc in Computer Engineering, marrying rigorous social-science research with engineering pragmatism.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Communication and Media Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Communication and Media Studies at Örebro University
Arabic, English, Turkish, Swedish
Github Skills (16)
twitter10
visualization9
data-analysis8
ftp-client8
file-upload7
file-browser7
file-explorer7
fact6
file-manager6
code-editor6
php6
fact-checking5
zero-configuration3
python2
journalism1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wsaqaf/sljournalism
May 2020 - May 2023
Source-labeled Journalism
Contributions:1 PR, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
journalism
wsaqaf/mecodify-docker
Jan 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 releases, 154 commits, 166 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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