Nasry Ahmed Esmat, 29, will be working at the Los Angeles Times and ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom for investigative journalism in the public interest. He has been a reporter and copy editor at Al-Ahram newspaper in Cairo covering judicial events as well as an interactivity editor and trainer for Filbalad.com, an independent news portal with different news websites and a news provider for mobile phones.

Aoun Sahi, 31, will be working at the Atlanta Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. He has been a reporter for The News on Sunday, the weekend magazine of The News International. Based at the headquarters in Lahore, he covers crime, environment, militancy, politics, security, and social issues.

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, 37, was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the Houston Chronicle. He has been Assistant Editor and Special Correspondent for The News International since 2003, covering the economy, health, human rights, information technology, law, social issues and telecommunications. He also works as a visiting lecturer at state-owned Punjab University where he teaches master's students in Development Journalism.

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Sherine El Madany, 27, was the third Daniel Pearl Fellow to join the staff of the Los Angeles Times. She has been at The Daily News Egypt since 2007, as a business reporter covering local and regional business news, including banking, corporate affairs, foreign exchange, inflation, investment, poverty, privatization and trade.

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Utku Çakirözer, age 37, was the second Daniel Pearl Fellow to join the staff of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Çakirözer works in Ankara for the English language newspaper Milliyet, reporting on politics, defense and foreign policy.  He has interviewed dignitaries including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Saudia Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal.

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Umar Cheema, age 29, was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the New York Times. Mr. Cheema works in Islamabad for Karachi based The News International, reporting on politics, jihadi outfits and terrorism. He served as the Secretary General of the Islamabad chapter of the South Asia Free Media Association, and is working on a book about the history of suicide bombing.

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Amr Emam, age 28, was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow from Egypt and the first to be placed  at the San Francisco Chronicle, working from March to August this year.  Mr. Emam recently spoke at a Daniel Pearl Foundation event and said, “I am a completely changed man and it is all thanks to the family who, once losing a dear and exquisite son, decided to trade good for evil. Instead of grieving, they decided to change the world and put understanding in place of ignorance, light in place of darkness."

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The 2006 winners of the Daniel Pearl Fellowships were Ghanashyam Ojha (Nepal), Senior Reporter for the Kathmandu Post and Shahid Hussain Shah (Pakistan), business reporter for The News International.

Ghanashyan Ojha, age 34, was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow from Nepal and the first to work at the North Adams Transcript / Berkshire Eagle, where Danny began his career.

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Shahid Hussain Shah, a business reporter for The News International of Karachi, Pakistan, age 29, was the third Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the Washington, DC Bureau of the Wall Street Journal.

Walid Al-Saqaf, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, Yemen’s first English-language newspaper worked at the Washington, DC bureau of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Al-Saqaf, age 31, was the second Daniel Pearl Fellow hosted by the Wall Street Journal, where Daniel Pearl worked.

Ammara Durrani, assistant editor of The News International, Pakistan’s most widely distributed English daily, joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times. Ms. Durrani, age 28, was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow at Daniel Pearl’s hometown paper.