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Zeinab Badawi is a British journalist, presenter, and newsreader. She was born in Sudan and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four. She is best known for her work on BBC World News, where she has presented the flagship programmes HARDtalk and Global.
Badawi has been a journalist since the early 1980s, when she worked for the BBC World Service. She has also worked for Channel 4 News, ITN, and the BBC's Newsnight. She has reported from many countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United States.
Badawi is a patron of the charity Journalists for Human Rights and a trustee of the International Women's Media Foundation. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
Badawi is married to the British-Sudanese journalist and author Fergal Keane. They have two children.
| Popular As |
Zeinab Badawi |
| Occupation |
Journalist, presenter, newsreader |
| Age |
65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius |
| Born |
24 November, 1959 |
| Birthday |
24 November |
| Birthplace |
Khartoum, Sudan |
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Zeinab Badawi Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Zeinab Badawi Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In August 2018, she was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy "for her contributions to international political journalism".
In May 2014 she was based in Johannesburg presenting coverage of the South African elections on BBC World News and BBC News Channel.
She has also been Chair of the Royal African Society (RAS) since 2014.
Badawi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in recognition of her achievements in journalism on 21 July 2011.
In June 2011 her appointment to the advisory board of the New College of the Humanities was announced.
Since 2010, in addition to her presenting role on BBC World News, Badawi has presented on the BBC News Channel and the BBC News at Five.
She is a regular presenter of the BBC interview programme HARDtalk. In an exclusive interview in May 2009, Badawi interviewed Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir, the first serving head of state to be charged with war crimes.
In November 2009, Badawi was named International TV Personality of the Year in the Annual Media Awards, the international media excellence awards organised by the Association for International Broadcasting.
In 2005, Badawi became the new presenter of The World on BBC Four, the UK's first daily news bulletin devoted principally to international news. In May 2007 the programme was rebranded as World News Today and is also shown on the BBC World News channel.
She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (since 2004) and the British Council.
She was educated at Hornsey High School for Girls in North London, before studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at St Hilda's College, Oxford. At Oxford, Badawi was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society. In 1988 she moved back to London to pursue a full-time one-year MA degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in Politics and Anthropology of the Middle East, graduating with distinction in 1989.
After graduating from Oxford University, Badawi was a researcher and broadcast journalist for Yorkshire TV from 1982 to 1986. After a period at BBC Manchester she joined Channel 4 News in 1988. Badawi co-presented Channel 4 News from 1989 until 1998 when she joined the BBC.
Zeinab Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي ; born 24 November 1959) is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30), and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998), before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and Reporters, a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC.
Badawi was born in Sudan and has lived in Britain since the age of two. Her great-grandfather, Sheikh Babiker Badri, fought against Kitchener's British forces at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and pioneered women's education in Sudan. Badawi's father was a newspaper editor in Sudan committed to social reform who, when the family moved to the UK, joined the BBC's Arabic Service. Badawi speaks Arabic but not fluently.
