Zainab Badawi
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Zeinab Badawi at Nobel Week Dialogue in December 2016.
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| Born |
Zeinab Badawi 24 November 1959 Sudan |
| Nationality | Sudanese |
| Education |
University of Oxford, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter, newsreader |
| Employer | BBC |
| Notable credit(s) |
World News Today with Zeinab Badawi HARDtalk GMT BBC News at Five |
| Children | 4 |
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 (now known as ITV News at 5:30), and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow (1989–1998), 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.
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 at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in Politics and Anthropology of the Middle East, graduating with distinction in 1989.
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