Constantin Schreiber (born 14 June 1979, in

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) is a German journalist working for German and Arabic language TV stations.

Life

As a teenager, Schreiber learned

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while spending time in Syria. He holds a law degree and worked as a journalist for the Lebanese newspaper '' Daily Star'' from 2006 to 2007. After that, he was a news correspondent for Deutsche Welle in

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and accompanied German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her first trip through the Middle East. From 2009 to 2011, Schreiber served as a media consultant for the Middle East at the German Federal Foreign Ministry. Since 2012, Schreiber has worked as a host and Middle East expert for the German TV channel

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. In addition, he also hosts the German-Arabic TV series

SciTech - Our World Tomorrow ''SciTech - Our World Tomorrow'' ( ar, سايتك عالمنا غداً) is the title of two separate but related German-Arabic science television series, one airing on the ONTV (Egypt) television network, the other airing on Oman TV. The serie ...

which is aired on ONTV (Egypt) and

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. In January 2017, Schreiber switched to ''ARD aktuell'', where he hosted the early and weekend editions of the ''

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'', as well as the ''Nachtmagazin''. Since March 2017, Schreiber has also hosted the NDR program ''Zapp – Das Medienmagazin'' as the successor of Inka Schneider. In 2017, his book ''Inside Islam – What's Preached in Germany's Mosques'' appeared in the ''Econ Verlag'' as well as the TV series ''the moscheereport'' on

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. For the research of these two works, Schreiber and a camera crew visited almost 20 ordinary mosques in Germany and translated their ''

Khutbah ''Khutbah'' ( ar, خطبة ''khuṭbah'', tr, hutbe) serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition. Such sermons occur regularly, as prescribed by the teachings of all legal schools. The Islamic tradition ...

''. The research was harshly criticized. He lives in Hamburg with his wife and children.

Writing

Schreiber is the author of: * ''Ausverkauf Deutschland. Wie ausländische Investoren unser Land übernehmen.'', Econ Verlag, Berlin, 2010. . * ''1000 Peitschenhiebe. Weil ich sage, was ich denke.'' Ullstein Buchverlag, 2015. . * ''Marhaba, Flüchtling! Im Dialog mit arabischen Flüchtlingen.'' Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2016. . * ''Inside Islam. Was in Deutschlands Moscheen gepredigt wird.'' Econ Verlag, Berlin, 2017. . * ''Kinder des Koran. Was muslimische Schüler lernen.'' Econ Verlag, Berlin, 2019, . * ''Die Kandidatin.'' Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 2021, .

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