Ahmed Sheikh is a Palestinian journalist and the current Editor-in-Chief of the Qatar-based television channelAl Jazeera. Palestinians are people with family origins mainly in Palestine. ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... Al Jazeera logo Al Jazeera (الجزيرة), meaning The Island or The (Arabian) Peninsula (whence also Algiers) is an Arabic television channel based in Qatar. ...
Ahmed Sheikh was born in the town of Nablus on the West Bank, which was occupied by Israel in 1967. He left his homeland in 1968 to study in Jordan. NÄblus (sometimes NÄbulus; Arabic: ; IPA: , Hebrew: Shechem ; IPA: ); ) is a major city under Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and, with a population of over 100,000, is one of the largest Palestinian population centers in the Middle East. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
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