Raghida Dergham

In 2017, she was named "Arab Woman of the Year" for her achievements in Journalism.

Arabian Business named Dergham one of its 100 Most Powerful Arab Women in 2011 and 2016 issues.

In 2010, the New Arab Woman Forum presented its award to her for being an "exceptional woman" and making a contribution to society.

She received the 2005 NAAP-NY Achievement Award from the Network of Arab-American Professionals of New York to honor her professional integrity in journalism.

Dergham is in SUNY's Hall of Fame as a distinguished alumna, and she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from SUNY in 2003.

Raghida Dergham was one of three Arab-Americans featured in the PBS documentary Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime which aired on September 4, 2002.

The Lebanese government suspended her Lebanese passport while she was in Beirut on assignment covering UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on 19 June 2000. Later, Lebanon said it had taken action as a result of a May 2000 panel discussion, in which Dergham participated, that included a representative from the Israeli government. The panel discussion was sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, D.C. Dergham was subsequently charged with "dealing with the enemy," a crime in Lebanon, and in June 2001 a trial was held in Lebanon.

In 1997, she served as the president of the United Nations Correspondents Association.

Raghida Dergham conducted an exclusive interview with Ramzi Youssef who was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

She covered the US-Soviet Summits in the 1980s between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Dergham was first hired professionally as a journalist in Boston, beginning her career in radio in 1974 and hosting a program Haneen (Translated: Nostalgia), and from this start, she became a foreign correspondent in New York in 1976. In 1989, she joined Al-Hayat, an independent daily Arabic newspaper, and began to cover the United Nations. Dergham is now the senior diplomatic correspondent for Al-Hayat and she writes a weekly column on international political affairs.

Raghida Dergham (Arabic: راغدة درغام ‎; born 1953) is a Lebanese-American journalist based in New York. She is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Beirut Institute and Columnist for The National. She served as Columnist, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, and New York Bureau Chief for the London-based Al-Hayat daily for 28 years. She is well-known internationally as a Middle Eastern female journalist, and has received awards for her career achievements.

Raghida Dergham was born to Nabih and Bahia Dergham in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1953. Her family is Druze in religion. Dergham moved to the United States in 1970 when she was seventeen, and worked her way through college at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh where she studied creative writing and journalism, and graduated in 1974.