Mohammed Barhouma
| Mohammed Barhouma | |
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| File:Mohammed Barhouma.jpg Mohammed Barhouma in 2016 | |
| Native name | محمد برهومة |
| Born | 14 July 1972 Amman, Jordan |
| 🏫 Education | Bachelor's degree in psychology and Arabic |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 1994– (25 years) |
| Known for | Political and lifestyle author, religious reform writings (Wrote over 2,000 published articles), media training and researcher |
| Notable work | Moral consciousness and its role in religious reform (book) |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) |
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| Family | Barhoum |
Mohammed Barhouma (Arabic: محمد برهومة; born 14 July 1972), is a Jordanian writer, media trainer, and researcher currently residing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He wrote for multiple newspapers include the Distour Newspaper, the Lebanese Sho'uon Al Awsat (Middle Eastern Affairs Newspaper), and the Palestinian Affairs magazine, Jordan Times (Al-Ray'ee), London-based Hayat newspaper, Al Ghad, Hafreyet News and many other political magazines and newspapers.
In 2016, he published his notable work, a book on religious reformations and the modern era, titled "Moral consciousness and its role in religious reform", which was published by the Emirates Center for Strategic studies and Research, and featured in the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in May 2016.
Early life and education[edit]
After completing his school years, Mohammed Barhouma, acquired his bachelor's degree in psychology and Arabic language at Yarmouk University, Amman, by August 1994. He also studied English for five years in the British Council, achieving high intermediate stage, almost advanced.
Newspapers[edit]
Mohammed Barhoum worked for several newspapers, research and strategic studies centers and notable regional magazines throughout his last 25 years active in political writing and media training.
Career at the Distour Newspaper (1994)[edit]
In 1994, after his graduation, Mohammed Barhouma was looking for a career. He sent his first article in November 1994, to the Distour Newspaper, and was laughed at for his young age and first-time writer status by the people at the post office (this was before the start of the internet, so you had to write articles and send them by mailing). He would publish four other articles for Al-Distour, however, they wouldn't send him any revenue for the published articles. He paused after the 4th article for this cause.
Career at Al-Ra'ee (1994–2001)[edit]
In 1994, after pausing his writing for Al-Distour newspaper, Mohammed Barhouma, looked for other newspapers. He wrote for Al-Ray'ee Newspaper. This was his regular temporary job, where he used revenues to pay for his mom's essentials, since she stopped sewing due to old age and lack of concentration. During these seven years (1994–2001), Mohammed Barhouma would publish around 200 articles in Al-Raee, some articles were even featured on the front cover, gaining him status and reputation for his fresh start as a 21-year-old political writer, which at the time was unheard of, especially in politics, were authors were in the old age of over 45. This would be the start of his political career.
Career at Al-Hayat Newspaper (1994–2014 and 2017–)[edit]
In 1994, Mohammed Barhouma, at the age of 21, started working for Al Hayat newspaper, a Middle-eastern focused newspaper, owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan. It is the second newspaper he started writing for. His career included writing around 500 articles for Al Hayat. Despite him as a registered writer for 25 years for this newspaper, he did not write as frequently as he wrote for other newspapers including Al Ghad. This is because in 2014, while working for Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, he paused writing for Al-Hayat, and in 2017, when he started working for Emirates Policy Center, he resumed writing, this formed a date gap.
Career at Al-Ghad Newspaper (2008–)[edit]
While still writing for Al-Hayat newspaper, Mohammed Barhouma, started writing for Al Ghad Newspaper, in 2008. His first article published, "The Journey of Bush, and Central Stability" on 18 January 2008. Since the start of his career for Al Ghad, he wrote articles in the categories of lifestyle, politics, psychology and religion.
Career at Hafreyet (2017–)[edit]
In 2017, Hafreyet was founded. Mohammed Barhouma is one of the first writers for this news website, he wrote over 100 articles for this website including a diverse amount of topics that include religion, thought, psychology and politics.
Personal life[edit]
Jordan[edit]
Mohammed Barhouma spent his entire early life in Jordan, and after graduation from Yarmouk University, resided in his home town, Amman, for seven years. He would write for Al-Distour and Al-Ra'ee in this time period. He wouldn't be part of a research centre, however.
United Arab Emirates[edit]
In 2001, Mohammed Barhouma came to the United Arab Emirates, where he started working for Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), and wrote for Al-Hayat, and Al-Ghad. He also published his notable book on behalf of this research center. In 2016, Mohammed Barhouma moved to the Emirates Policy Centre. In 2017, Mohammed Barhoum started writing for Hafreyet News.
Side contributions[edit]
Some of the contributions by Mohammed Barhouma include his contributions to various articles from 1994–96 for Shou'an Al Awsat magazine and Palestinian Affairs magazine. He also was part-contributor to multiple featured articles. During his career at Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, he contributed in publishing many books with other notable authors throughout the region.
He also has trained over 100 students at Emirates Policy Center as a role of media trainer. On top of that, Mohammed Barhouma has contributed in multiple research campaigns led by his center.
Achievements[edit]
Other than his 2,000 written published articles, one of his notable achievements includes his book "Moral consciousness and its role in religious reform" which was published by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, in 2016. It talks about religion and the modern era. This book shares its views on the ideas that are lacking in the modern Arab world that are pushing an Arab renaissance, and a scientific, enlightenment revolution to occur returning the status of the Golden Age in the 7th through 13th century.
Some comments from political websites on this major work include:
"It can be said that this study attempts to stare critically at the ideals and religious values, reform and restructure them and put moral consciousness and the ethical issue in their appropriate practical context, by exposing them to the considerations of rights culture and private and public freedoms, as stated in the International Covenants. The human consciousness that has settled in our time on the centrality and independence of the human being, linking it to the issue of power, governance and public affairs management, to the establishment of the idea of faith as a direct relationship with human knowledge, science, culture and freedom, is not an inverse relationship with all that. " Eram News
♦ Another commentary by Riy'e-El-Youm:
"In his new book he works on the idea that moral reform seeks to prevent the clash of religion with freedom or the shackling of knowledge. He believes that there is no complete effort or project for Renaissance, enlightenment and religious reform in the Arab region and the Islamic world, in general, without engaging in the idea of reforming the ideals and religious values, and providing scientifically coherent theoretical and philosophical efforts regarding the nature of the relationship between religion and morality, by building On the ideas and efforts scattered in the Arab and Islamic heritage discussed this issue in the past, and the approach of the moral question, but did not insist on criticizing those ideas and efforts and dismantling, organizing, developing and framing them in the context of the development of "ethics" in Arab civilization based on the human common General. Mohamed Barhouma draws attention to the fact that this was available in the golden centuries of Islamic civilization, especially in the period between the 2nd and 5th century Hijri, but the civilized retreat that began with the ages of decadence prevented the crystallization of this great civilized project."
♦ Another commentary by 2ooli News, about the book, quoted:
"This study comes at a political time when Salafist jihadist currents kidnap the human, moral and civilized dimension of Islam, and hence the study focuses on saying that the location of human morality in the fields of faith and Sharia in the form provided by Salafi religious thinking and the owners Religious ideologies can justify what is immoral in the name of religion, when it is transformed into an ideology, and when religious texts and teachings are interpreted in a strict manner that collide with the needs and interests of people and their human and human gains as presented and provided by the experiences of political Islam and Salafists In more than one Arab or Islamic country, where the moral, human and civilized dimension of Islam is almost in the test." – 2ooli News
Records[edit]
Other than book reviews and commentaries from known political review websites, Mohammed Barhouma earned records in article attention. He has an estimated three million article views in total, and over thirty thousand shares. He earned an award from the Abu Dhabi Book Fair 2016, for his notable book "Moral Consciousness and its role in religious reform". Apart from monetary awards, he has earned "Top Article of the Day" tag over thirty times throughout his career.
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Al-Ghad News, biography and profile, خطأ
- Hafreyet, biography and profile, محمد برهومة
- Erem News, كتاب لـ محمد برهومة يقارب"الوعي الأخلاقي ودوره في الإصلاح الديني"
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