Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi
Badawi at Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm, 2016
Born (1959-10-03) 3 October 1959 (age 65)
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
Spouse
David Crook
(m. 1991, divorced)
Children4
RelativesSheikh Babiker Badri (great-grandfather)

Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي; born 3 October 1959)[1][2] is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30),[3] 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.[4] In 2021, Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London.[5] Badawi serves on several civic boards and published her first book, An African History of Africa, in 2024.

  1. ^ "Zeinab Badawi awarded Honorary Doctorate by SOAS". soas.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
  3. ^ British Embassy Lisbon: Zeinab Badawi. Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "About World News Today with Zeinab Badawi", BBC, 26 February 2010.
  5. ^ "Zeinab Badawi appointed as President of SOAS". SOAS University of London. 5 October 2021.

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