Editor's Pick: 2021 Arabic

Editor’s Pick: 2021’s Best Investigative Stories from the Arab World

Throughout 2021, reporters from around the Arab world produced excellent investigative work, some as part of transnational reporting collaborations on human rights, financial investigations, and phone hacking. With a salute to our colleagues who work in this very tough neighborhood, we are proud to highlight some of the best investigative journalism from the past year.

GIJN العربية

ستجدون في هذه الصفحة منصة مصادر خاصة بالصحافة الاستقصائية باللغة العربية، لتكون دليلا ومرجعا للصحافيين العرب الراغبين بخوض هذا النوع من الصحافة، القائم على امتلاك الصحافي لمهارات متخصصة في مجالات البحث، والتقصي، والوصول الى المصادر المتصلة بالقصة، وتدقيق الحقائق قبل نشرها.

Skeletons in the Closet: How VICE Arabia Exposed Cadaver Smuggling in Egypt

As VICE weathers through cutbacks, VICE Arabia is betting on investigative journalism to set it apart from the competition in Arabic-speaking countries. Its team’s first big scoop exposed a smuggling network that exhumed corpses to sell them to medical students, who needed them for their studies. VICE Arabia’s senior editor tells GIJN how they uncovered the story.