Asiem El Difraoui (Arabic: عبد العظيم حسن الدفراوي, DMG 'Abd al-'Aẓīm Ḥasan ad Difrāwī; born 5 April 1965) is a political scientist, economist, and documentary director and producer of Egyptian-German descent.
As a journalist and director and producer of documentaries, Asiem El Difraoui has thus worked in Germany, France, the MENA region, the Balkans, and South East Asia.
During this time he was involved with the project "Jihadism on the Internet: The internationalization of violence discourses on the World Wide Web"[3] and served in this capacity as an advisor on the European Commission's 'Clean IT' initiative.
[2] El Difraoui is also one of the founders of the Candid Foundation in Berlin, an independent think tank which attempts to promote intercultural understanding and creative approaches in international development, focussing especially on the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean.
[6] In 2019, El Difraoui was head of a project for the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to develop a qualification course and a non-fiction book on exiting Islamic extremism.