Zeinab Badawi Biography
Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. Before joining BBC News, she was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow. Badawi hosted World News Today, which aired on both BBC Four and BBC World News, as well as Reporters, a weekly showcase of BBC reports.
Zeinab Badawi Age
Badawi is 62 years old as of 2021. She was born on 24 November 1959 in Juba, South Sudan.
Zeinab Badawi Height
Badawi stands a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.64m) and weighs 127lbs (57 Kg).
Zeinab Badawi Family
Sheikh Babiker Badri, Badawi’s great-grandfather, 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 Sudanese newspaper editor committed to social reform who joined the BBC’s Arabic Service after the family relocated to the UK. Badawi is bilingual and fluent in both Arabic and English.
Zeinab Badawi Husband | Children
Badawi had previously been married but divorced. She has kept her personal life and the identity of her ex-husband private. She is a single mother of four children; to two boys and two girls.
Zeinab Badawi Education
Badawi attended Hornsey High School for Girls in North London before attending St Hilda’s College, Oxford, to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Badawi was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society while at Oxford. She returned to London in 1988 to pursue a full-time one-year MA degree in Politics and Anthropology of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, graduating with distinction in 1989.
Zeinab Badawi Height and Weight
Badawi stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.64m) and weighs 127lbs (57 Kg).
Zeinab Badawi Faith
Badawi investigates religion in Africa in the episode Ancestors, Spirits, and God. First, there is the enduring presence of Africa’s indigenous ancestral religions, which are still practiced by millions of people on the continent. She travels to Zimbabwe to learn more about a remote African community that practices traditional African religion. In Senegal, she meets a Muslim man who combines Islamic and ancestral beliefs. She also examines the impact of Judaism and early Christianity in Africa, as well as how Africans in particular contributed significantly to Christian thought and practice.
Zeinab Badawi Trevor Noah
Badawi spoke to the South African comedian Trevor Noah on HARDtalk. Trevor Noah, the comedian and host of The Daily Show, appeared on the BBC’s in-depth interview show ‘Hardtalk’ in December 2016. South African-born Noah was there to talk about his experiences growing up under apartheid—a story he also recounted in his autobiography ‘Born A Crime’—but at one point during the interview, Noah and host Zeinab Badawi went off on a tangent about the hyper-partisan nature of the US media-political axis, fake news, and the connotations and implications of ‘objective journalism.’ I’d like to share a 4-minute clip from this segment in which Noah demonstrates the full breadth of his understanding of the powers and nature of the media, as well as offering a trenchant critique of the inherent dangers and hypocrisies of what people like to call ‘objective journalism.’
Zeinab Badawi Net Worth
Badawi has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Zeinab Badawi Career
From 1982 to 1986, Badawi worked as a researcher and broadcast journalist for Yorkshire TV after graduating from Oxford University. After working for the BBC in Manchester, she joined Channel 4 News in 1988. From 1989 to 1998, Badawi co-hosted Channel 4 News before joining the BBC.
For five years, Badawi worked as a presenter and reporter for Westminster live political programs at the BBC. She also worked on BBC radio, where she was a regular presenter of The World Tonight on Radio 4 and Newshour on the BBC World Service. Badawi took over as the new presenter of The World on BBC Four in 2005, the UK’s first daily news bulletin devoted primarily to international news. The program was renamed World News Today in May 2007, and it is also broadcast on the BBC World News channel.
She is a regular host of the BBC interview show HARDtalk. In May 2009, Badawi conducted an exclusive interview with 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 Association for International Broadcasting’s Annual Media Awards, which recognize international media excellence. Badawi has been a presenter on the BBC News Channel and BBC News at Five since 2010, in addition to her role on BBC World News.
In July 2011, the School of Oriental and African Studies conferred an honorary doctorate on Badawi. She was in Johannesburg in May 2014, covering the South African elections for BBC World News and BBC News Channel.
Badawi has led an annual Nobel laureate discussion in conjunction with the Nobel festivities in Stockholm, Sweden, for many years. The program is broadcast on Swedish television. In 2017, Badawi hosted The History of Africa, a nine-part series based on UNESCO’s General History of Africa. The documentary series aired on BBC World News in July and August of 2017. In August 2018, she received the British Academy’s President’s Medal for her “contributions to international political journalism.”
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