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Amjad Tadros
{{BLP sources|date=June 2020}} 
{{Infobox person
| name         = Amjad Tadros
| image        = Amjad Tadros.jpg
| caption      = Amjad Tadros at Sanaa Airport, Yemen, 2015
| birth_name   = Amjad Michael Tadros
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1968|6|12}}
| birth_place  = [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]
| occupation   = [[Journalist]]
| years_active = 1990–present
}}
'''Amjad Tadros''' (born June 12, 1968) is an award-winning [[journalist]] and media entrepreneur.

He is the point person for [[CBS News]] in the Middle East and has managed the network's coverage and operations in the region since 1990. He is also a contributor to [[CBS News]] website<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-jordan-seemingly-kept-in-check-by-drastic-early-lockdown-measures/|title=Drastic, early action seems to keep a lid on Jordan's COVID-19 outbreak|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yemen-war-coronavirus-little-left-to-stop-spread-of-covid-19-2020-05-04/|title="The virus is now in Yemen," and there's little left in the war-torn country to stop it.|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-qatar-spreads-exponentially-in-migrant-worker-labor-camps/|title=Coronavirus spreads "exponentially" in Qatar's labor camps|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yemen-war-and-coronavirus-international-aid-isnt-enough-and-this-is-why/|title=As war and COVID-19 ravage Yemen, $1.35 billion in international aid isn't nearly enough. Here's why.|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/refugee-day-world-refugee-day-80-million-displaced-1-percent-population-memories-fade-not-hope/|title=For the world's 80 million displaced people, memories fade, but not hope|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fso-safer-tanker-yemen-supertanker-full-of-crude-oil-decaying-civil-war-could-blow-up/|title=A supertanker full of crude oil decaying amid Yemen's civil war could blow up|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethiopia-nile-dam-filling-reservoir-egypt-calls-existential-threat-in-3-way-dispute-sudan/|title=Ethiopia filling mega-dam that Egypt calls an "existential" threat|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref>.

==Honors==
He is a four-time [[Emmy Award]] winner<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.royanews.tv/news/15339/Jordanian-Amjad-Tadros-awarded-at-39th-News-and-Documentary-Emmy-Awards|title=Jordanian Amjad Tadros awarded at 39th News and Documentary Emmy Awards|website=en.royanews.tv|language=en|access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/television-and-radio/2016/09/23/Jordanian-journalist-wins-Emmy-award-for-CBS-Syria-documentary.html|title=Jordan(contracted; show full)

==Education==
Amjad Tadros holds an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from [[Imperial College London|Imperial College]] at the University of London. He is also a member of the inaugural class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative at The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Institute Aspen Institute].

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