Zeinab Badawi Biography
Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British radio and television journalist who was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News and co-hosted Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998. Badawi hosted World News Today, which aired on both BBC Four and BBC World News, as well as Reporters.
How old is Zeinab Badawi? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 24 November 2020. She was born in 1959 in Juba, South Sudan.
Where does Zeinab Badawi come from? – Ethnicity
Badawi was born in Sudan and has lived in the United Kingdom since he was two years old. Badawi is bilingual and fluent in both Arabic and English.
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.
Is Zeinab Badawi married? – Husband
She is married and the couple has four children; two sons and two daughters.
Zeinab Badawi Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65m).
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, University of London, graduating with distinction in 1989.
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 (SOAS) 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.
