Hala Gorani | |
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Born |
Hala Basha Gorani 1 March 1970 Seattle, Washington, USA |
Alma mater |
George Mason University Sciences Po |
Occupation | News anchor |
Spouse(s) | Christian Streib (2015-present) |
Website | CNN’s Hala Gorani |
Hala Basha-Gorani (born 1 March 1970) is a French raised American, CNN International London-based Anchor and Correspondent. She anchors CNN's The World Right Now with Hala Gorani on weeknights at 9p.m. CET. Gorani co-hosted Your World Today with Jim Clancy until February 2009 and then International Desk until April 2014 from CNN's Atlanta headquarters.
Gorani began her career as a reporter for La Voix du Nord and Agence France-Presse before joining France 3 in 1994. After a stint at Bloomberg Television in London, she joined CNN in 1998 as an anchor for CNN International’s European breakfast show, ‘CNN Today’. She has since reported from every country in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. In November 2005, Gorani was one of the first television reporters on the ground in Amman, Jordan after Al Qaeda suicide bombers attacked two hotels. Earlier in 2005 she had covered Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from Gaza. In 2006, she covered the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war in the summer of 2006 from Lebanon, which earned CNN an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2002 and in 2007, she led CNN's coverage of the respective French presidential elections.