CONTRIBUTOR

Samira Mohyeddin

Samira Mohyeddin is a multi-award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has a Master of Arts in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of Genocide Studies from the Zoryan Institute. For nearly a decade, she was a producer and host at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC Radio and CBC Podcasts, Canada's national public broadcaster. She resigned from the CBC in November 2023 and founded On The Line Media, where she brings audiences intimate conversations and informed commentary with a focus on critical and contextual journalism. Samira sits on the advisory board of Centennial College's Journalism School and was the 2024 - 2025 inaugural journalism fellow for the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto and the 2025 PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize recipient for freedom of expression. She is currently in production on a documentary about the Palestine solidarity student encampment at the University of Toronto.