Ayman Mohyeldin

Ayman Mohyeldin (born 18 April 1979) is an Egyptian-American journalist and anchor based in New York for NBC News and MS NOW. He began at NBC, produced for CNN in Iraq, and reported for Al Jazeera English on the 2008–2009 Gaza war and the Arab Spring before returning to NBC News, where he went on to anchor his own MSNBC programmes. ¹

Mohyeldin was born in Cairo on 18 April 1979, to an Egyptian father, Medhat Mohyeldin, and a Palestinian mother, Abla Awwad. ^{1 2 3} He lived in Egypt until the age of five, when his parents emigrated to the United States, and he attended North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Georgia. ¹ At American University in Washington he earned a BA in international relations and an MA in international politics, with a focus on peace and conflict resolution. ¹

Mohyeldin began his career as a desk assistant in NBC's Washington bureau, then lived in Iraq from 2003 to 2005 as a foreign news producer with CNN; he was among the first Western journalists allowed to enter and report on the handover and trial of the deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. ¹ With Al Jazeera English he covered the 2008–2009 Gaza war and the Arab Spring; on 6 February 2011 the Egyptian military detained him as he tried to enter Tahrir Square, releasing him nine hours later. ¹ He was named to the Time 100 list in 2011. ² In September 2011 he rejoined NBC News, reporting from Syria, from Egypt during the removal of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, and from Ukraine in 2014. ¹ Sent to Gaza at the start of the 2014 conflict, he witnessed and reported the killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on 16 July 2014. ¹ He went on to anchor Ayman Mohyeldin Reports and the weekend-evening programme Ayman on MSNBC, and co-hosted The Weekend: Primetime until its final broadcast in June 2026, remaining with the network as it became MS NOW. ¹

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