MJ Daoud is a multimedia journalist, editor, and entrepreneur passionate about solution-based and constructive journalism. At the What If, she draws on her experience reporting from conflict zones to explore how narratives shape conflict, and what can be done to transform them. She's a certified constructive and solutions journalism trainer (TOT II) by the Deutsche Welle Akademie and the Solutions Journalism Network.
With Yulia Krus, MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
Choose someone living in Lebanon or Ukraine and follow their day through their footage, photographs, and voice recordings. Documentary material depicting war; headphones recommended, viewer discretion advised.
With MJ Daoud
The What If’s experience working with journalists in Lebanon during the 2024 war, focusing on reporting strategies that prevent escalating tensions and avoid sectarianism.
With Yulia Krus, MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
Choose someone living in Lebanon or Ukraine and follow their day through their footage, photographs, and voice recordings. Documentary material depicting war; headphones recommended, viewer discretion advised.
With Yulia Krus, MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
Choose someone living in Lebanon or Ukraine and follow their day through their footage, photographs, and voice recordings. Documentary material depicting war; headphones recommended, viewer discretion advised.
With Yulia Krus, MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
Choose someone living in Lebanon or Ukraine and follow their day through their footage, photographs, and voice recordings. Documentary material depicting war; headphones recommended, viewer discretion advised.
With MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
With Yulia Krus, MJ Daoud, Tetiana Kulkova and Olena Myhashko
Choose someone living in Lebanon or Ukraine and follow their day through their footage, photographs, and voice recordings. Documentary material depicting war; headphones recommended, viewer discretion advised.
With MJ Daoud
MJ Daoud shares The What If's experience in covering Lebanon's 2024 war, focusing on reporting strategies that reduced tensions and avoided deepening sectarian divides.
With MJ Daoud, Olena Myhashko and Tetiana Kulkova
Practitioners from MDF and The What If compare how local newsrooms in Ukraine and Lebanon build trust with their communities — one through membership models under wartime funding cuts, the other across deep social fragmentation. Together they unpack what impact-driven community journalism actually takes to build.