Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi
Badawi at Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm, 2016
BornOctober 1959 (age 64)
Khartoum, Sudan
NationalityBritish and Sudanese - dual citizenship
EducationSt Hilda's College, Oxford
SOAS, University of London
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Presenter
  • Newsreader
EmployerBBC
Notable credit(s)World News Today with Zeinab Badawi
HARDtalk
GMT
BBC News at Five
Children4

Zeinab Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي; born October 1959)[1] is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30),[2] and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 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.[3] In 2021, Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London.[4]

  1. ^ "Zeinab Badawi awarded Honorary Doctorate by SOAS". soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ British Embassy Lisbon: Zeinab Badawi. Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "About World News Today with Zeinab Badawi", BBC, 26 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Zeinab Badawi appointed as President of SOAS". SOAS University of London. 5 October 2021.

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