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Tayseer Allouni was born on 1955 in Deir ez-Zur, Syria, is a Syrian-Spanish journalist. Discover Tayseer Allouni's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Tayseer Allouni Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Tayseer Allouni Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Tayseer Allouni worth at the age of 69 years old? Tayseer Allouni’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from Syria. We have estimated Tayseer Allouni's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Tayseer Allouni (تيسير علوني; also: Taysir, Tayseer, Alluni, Aluni, Alony) is a journalist from the Al Jazeera news channel.
He was born in Deir ez-Zor in Syria in 1955 then in 1983 he moved to Spain, where he studied Economics, and has lived there ever since, adopting Spanish citizenship in 1988.
Alluni was born in Deir ez-Zor, Syria in 1955 and went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in economics from a Syrian university.
He traveled to Spain in 1985 to continue his studies but due to economic hardships he worked as a trader instead.
He married in 1987 and is a father of five children.
After becoming a Spanish citizen in 1988 he held a number of jobs in Spain, including teaching Arabic and working in the municipality taxation office of the city of Ceuta.
In 1996, he joined the Arabic service of the Spanish news agency EFE as a translator.
During his work there, he started freelancing for Al Jazeera.
During this same year he also began working with the Institute of Peace and Dispute Studies in Granada.
He interviewed Osama bin Laden following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and was controversially convicted on terrorism-related charges in Spain in 2005.
In 1999, he joined Al Jazeera as their correspondent in Afghanistan and headed the Kabul office for a period of two years before 11 September 2001.
During the US war against the Taliban and al-Qaida, he was the only foreign journalist to remain in Kabul and broadcast to the world images of the unfolding events.
After the US bombing of the Al Jazeera office in Kabul, he returned to Doha, Qatar, to continue his work for Al Jazeera as a newsroom journalist.
During the Iraq War in 2003, he went to Baghdad and covered the US-led invasion.
Highlights of his career include
On Monday September 26, 2005, a Spanish court found Alluni guilty of collaboration with al-Qaida, sentencing the Syrian-born, naturalized Spaniard to seven years in jail.
Allouni, who insisted on his innocence throughout Europe's biggest al-Qaida trial, interviewed the group's leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan weeks after the September 11 attacks in the United States.
Accused of acting as a financial courier to the group while in Afghanistan, Alluni, who had faced a maximum nine-year term, said in testimony he was only doing his job as a journalist.
A campaign regarding his innocence has been mounted by amongst others Al Jazeera and the Arab Commission for Human Rights.
On January 17, 2012, a European court decided that the seven-year term Allouni was given over charges of collusion with a terror organization was not legal.
He was freed in March 2012, and returned to Doha.
He has now continued working in Doha and reunited with his family which he continues to raise, despite the long prison sentence he received.
