Hala Basha-Gorani (born March 1, 1970) is an anchor and a senior Syrian-American correspondent for CNN International, based in London. She is CNN's nighttime anchor of Hala Gorani Tonight at nine o'clock. CET. Gorani hosted Your World Today with Jim Clancy until February 2009 and later the International Desk until April 2014 from CNN headquarters in Atlanta.
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Careers
Gorani began his career as a reporter for La Voix du Nord and Agence France-Presse before joining France 3 in 1994. After serving on Bloomberg Television in London, he joined CNN in 1998 as an anchor for CNN The international European breakfast event, 'CNN Today'. He has since reported from every country in the Middle East. In November 2005, Gorani was one of the first television journalists on the ground in Amman, Jordan after an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber attacked two hotels. Earlier in 2005 he had covered Israel's unilateral disarmament plan from Gaza. In 2006, he covered the 2006 Lebanese-Israeli war in the summer of 2006 from Lebanon, which produced CNN as the Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2002 and 2007, he led CNN coverage of the French presidential election respectively.
Gorani is one of the CNN journalists who was awarded the News and Documentary Emmy for network coverage from the 2011 Egyptian revolution that led to the overthrow of the country's president, Hosni Mubarak. In 2015, he covered from Paris, the January shooting of Charlie Hebdo and the November ISIS attacks.
Gorani also covered a devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where CNN coverage was recognized with the Golden Nymph award - one of the highest honors in international journalism - at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival that year. In addition to his detention duties, Gorani often goes into the field to report the headlines. In late June he was part of a small team of journalists who were allowed into Syria for the first time since protests began to cover the situation there. He previously reported extensively from Jordan and Egypt and his coverage of the Arab Spring helped CNN win the Peabody Award in 2012.
In 2008 Gorani attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and moderated a closing session featuring several business and political leaders including Tony Blair, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO James Dimon. Gorani previously hosted 'Inside the Middle East' at CNN International, a monthly event featuring the most important social, political and cultural issues in the region. During his five years as host, he reported several colorful stories and thoughts including poverty in oil-rich Bahrain; daily struggles for artists living in Iraq; and gay life in the Middle East, first on international television and getting a nomination for Gay & amp; Lesbian Alliance Award on Defamation (GLAAD).
Gorani has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Amr Moussa, Rafik Hariri, Saeb Erakat, Nouri al-Maliki, Ehud Barak, Dalai Lama, Shimon Peres and Carla Bruni, among others. Gorani avoids discussion of political and religious views, citing the need for professional neutrality.
In May 2015, Gorani was awarded honorary doctorate by George Mason University and delivered an early speech to the graduating student of the year.
On the weekend of November 13-15, 2015, Gorani was a key member of CNN's extensive team that included the after-action and investigation of a terrorist attack in Paris, France where about 130 people were killed.
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Personal life
Gorani was born in 1970 in Seattle, Washington. According to him, he comes from "quite an international background [...] I am a US citizen with Syrian parents."
Gorani was mainly raised in Paris, France. He also lives in Algeria. His name "Ha'la" is a common Arabic name meaning "hello around the moon." He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., and graduated from the Institut d'ÃÆ' Â © tudes politiques (better known as Sciences Po) in Paris in 1995.
Gorani is fluent in English, French, and Arabic. He considers Paris his home, which is also his mother's residence. From 2004 to 2014 he was based at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, when in the last year he moved back to London.
French Novelis Yann Moix also dedicated his first novel Jubilations Vers le Ciel to him in 1996.
Gorani married German CNN photojournalist Christian Streib on June 14, 2015 at Jardin Majorelle, Morocco.
Awards and Recognition
- 2016: Television Personality Award, International Association of Broadcasters.
- 2015: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, George Mason University.
- 2015: Named one of the most powerful women by Forbes Woman Middle East.
- 2012: Emmy News and Documentary for network coverage of the Egyptian revolution.
- 2012: Emmy News Nomination and Documentary for Extraordinary Straight Lineage from Recent News Story - Long Form (Anderson Cooper 360).
- 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for network coverage from Spring Arab.
- 2011-2015: Named among the 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine.
- 2007: Edward R. Murrow Award for network coverage on continuing coverage of the Middle East conflict.
References
External links
- The official profile at CNN.com
- Hala Gorani's In the Middle East Diary, live from Egypt, January 31, 2007
- Interview with Hala Gorani (France) 2010
- Interview with Gorani June 2008
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