Hala Gorani

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Hala Gorani
Gorani in 2016
Born
Hala Basha Gorani

(1970-03-01) March 1, 1970 (age 54)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Alma materGeorge Mason University
Sciences Po
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • News anchor & correspondent
  • War correspondent
SpouseChristian Streib (2015–present)
AwardsEdward R. Murrow Award,
4 Emmy Awards, George Foster Peabody Award, Television Personality of the Year 2016

Hala Basha-Gorani (/ˈhɑːlə ɡəˈrɑːni/;[1] born March 1, 1970) is an American journalist, working as a correspondent for NBC News. Previously she was an anchor and correspondent for CNN International, based in London. She is also a war correspondent. She previously anchored CNN's Hala Gorani Tonight weeknights at 8 p.m. CET.[2][3] Gorani co-hosted Your World Today with Jim Clancy until February 2009 and then International Desk until April 2014 from CNN's Atlanta headquarters.

Since February 2022, Gorani has been a special war anchor based in

Russian invasion.[4] Although broadcast in the late evening to her American audience, the time difference means that she is coming live in the early morning from Ukraine.[5]

On 28 April 2022, Gorani announced she would be leaving CNN, and would present her final episode of Hala Gorani Tonight that evening.

Early life

Gorani was born in 1970 in

Washington D.C.[8]

Gorani was mainly raised in

Institut d'études politiques (better known as Sciences Po) in Paris in 1995.[6] Due to her multi-national experiences during her formative years, the sound of her name, and her accent, Gorani says that she is a foreigner wherever she goes.[1]

Career

Hala Gorani Association of International Broadcasting (AIB)

Gorani began her career as a reporter for

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from Gaza. In the summer of 2006, she covered the 2006 Lebanon War from Lebanon, which earned CNN an Edward R. Murrow Award.[9] In 2002 and in 2007, she led CNN's coverage of the respective French presidential elections.[9]

Gorani was one of the CNN journalists awarded a News and Documentary Emmy for the network's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that led to the ouster of the country's then president, Hosni Mubarak. In 2015, she covered from Paris the January Charlie Hebdo shooting and the November ISIS attacks.

Gorani also covered the devastating

Peabody Award in 2012.[10]

In 2008, Gorani attended the

James Dimon
.

Gorani formerly hosted Inside the Middle East on

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) award.[11]

Gorani has interviewed

Saeb Erakat, Nouri al-Maliki, Ehud Barak, the Dalai Lama, Shimon Peres and Carla Bruni, among others.[12] Gorani avoids discussing her political and religious views, citing the need for professional neutrality.[13]

In May 2015, Gorani was awarded an honorary doctorate by George Mason University and delivered the commencement address to that year's graduating students.[1][14]

Hala Gorani Association of International Broadcasting group

On the weekend of November 13–15, 2015, Gorani was a principal member of the extensive CNN team that covered the action, aftermath and investigation of terrorist attacks in Paris, France where some 130 people were killed.

In 2018, Gorani was nominated for another News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Manchester Concert Attack.[15] That same year, she and her team received an Emmy Award for her show's coverage of "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun."[16]

In a commencement address, Gorani offered these observations to the new graduates: Gorani says that as a journalist, career defining moments are those where one can identify that the work did make a difference; and the being different is a good thing because those differences will make a person memorable. Gorani advised the students to cultivate their differences and from them the students will find their strength.[1]

From November 2017 to April 2022, Gorani anchored CNN International's Hala Gorani Tonight weeknights at 8 p.m. CET. From February 2022 Gorani was a special war anchor based in Lviv, in western Ukraine during the Russian invasion.

Having left CNN, after her final show on 28 April 2022, Gorani took a sabbatical from broadcasting to work on her first book, a memoir exploring the subject of identity which was published by Hachette Book Group in February 2024 and titled But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging. [17]

Personal life

Gorani considers

Atlanta, Georgia, and in 2014 she moved back to London.[6]

French novelist Yann Moix dedicated his first novel, Jubilations Vers le Ciel, to her in 1996.

Gorani married German CNN photojournalist Christian Streib on June 14, 2015, in Jardin Majorelle, Morocco.[19]

While researching her book, Gorani traced part of her familial ancestry to Abkhazia.[20]

Bibliography

  • Gorani, Hala (2024). But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging. Hachette Books.
    ISBN 0306831643

Awards and recognition

Gorani received the Television Personality of the Year award in 2016.
  • 2023: DuPont-Columbia Award for CNN's coverage of the Ukraine war.
  • 2018: News and Documentary Emmy win for "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun."
  • 2018: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Manchester Concert Attack.
  • 2016: Television Personality of the Year, Association for International Broadcasting.
  • 2015: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, George Mason University.
  • 2015: Named one of the most powerful women by Forbes Woman Middle East.
  • 2012: News and Documentary Emmy win for coverage of the Egyptian revolution.
  • 2012: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form (Anderson Cooper 360).
  • 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for the network's coverage of the Arab Spring.
  • 2011–2015: Named among 100 Most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine.[21]
  • 2007: Edward R. Murrow Award for the network's coverage of the continuing coverage of the Middle East conflict.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hala Gorani's 2015 Commencement Address at George Mason University". 20 May 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2022 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ World Right Now on-air promo, also on Turner Broadcasting System website. Retrieved: 10 January 2015.
  3. ^ Anchors & Reporters: Hala Gorani, CNN website. Retrieved: 10 January 2015.
  4. ^ "CNN coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (See line 6 of text)". CNN. 24 February 202. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  5. ^ "CNN coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (See line 6 of text)". CNN. 24 February 202. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Kelly Crane (May 5, 2008). "The other side of CNN anchor Hala Gorani". Gulf News. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  7. ^ "Pack your bags". CNN. 29 October 2002. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  8. ^ a b c d Fouad, Malak (March 8, 2023). "Hala Gorani interview". Amaeya Media. I don't know yet. I mean, I'm still that person who is born in Seattle, moved to St. Louis, moved to Algeria, moved to Paris, moved back to Washington to live with my dad, with Syrian parents, raised in a French and American culture, living now in London, married to a German.
  9. ^ a b CNN Anchors & Reporters - Hala Gorani
  10. ^ "CNN TV - Anchors/Reporters:Hala Gorani".
  11. ^ "CNN Profiles - Hala Gorani - Anchor". CNN. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  12. ^ Telling the Stories behind the Headlines 2009 Archived June 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Abbas, Faisal (17 Jan 2006). "Q&A with CNN's Hala Gorani with Hala Gorani". Asharq Alawsat. Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2007.
  14. ^ "CNN Anchor Hala Gorani to deliver commencement address". George Mason University Alumni. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  15. ^ "2018 News and Document Emmy nomination press release" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. July 26, 2018.
  16. ^ "Hala Gorani's Awards". IMDB.
  17. ^ "Hala Gorani". Chartwell Speakers.
  18. ^ Hala Gorani speaks to Forward 2007 Archived October 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ "CNN Journalist, Hala Gorani, gets married in Morroco [sic]". TheCable. June 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  20. ^ Shakir, Manal (March 5, 2024). "REVIEW: Hala Gorani explores her roots in 'But You Don't Look Arab'". Arab News.
  21. ^ "The World's 100 Most Powerful Arab Women". Arabian Business. Retrieved 2015-09-25.

External links

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