Ghida Fakhry ( ar, غیدا فخري) is a Lebanese-British journalist. She was a lead anchor for the global news channel

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at its launch in

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, and was later one of the primary anchors at the network's headquarters in

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. She was also the host of ''Witness'', a documentary program.

Career

Ghida Fakhry moderating at the World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings 2017

Ghida Fakhry started her TV career as a Middle East analyst for

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and was a CNN world report contributor. She later became New York Bureau Chief and Columnist for a leading London-based Middle East newspaper covering the annual General Assembly meetings of the UN. As New York Correspondent and Bureau Chief for

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

from 2000, she covered the 9/11 attacks. Fakhry conducted interviews in Washington D.C. with U.S. Secretary of Defense,

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, and the Secretary of State,

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, as well as several other senior

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and

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officials. She reported on location from

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and

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in the summer of 2003 while traveling with Rumsfeld during his first trip to

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

after the US-led invasion and covered his visit to the

Abu Ghraib prison Abu Ghraib prison ( ar, سجن أبو غريب, ''Sijn Abū Ghurayb'') was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib prison was opened in the 1950s and served as a maximum-security prison with torture, weekly exe ...

. Fakhry joined

at its launch in 2006, taking on the role of Lead Female Anchor in the network's Washington DC broadcast center. She presented the award-winning documentary program Witness in 2010. In 2017, she joined

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and launched a monthly global affairs program ''Bigger than Five''. Since 2020, she also now hosts the weekly political program ''Inside America with Ghida Fakhry''.

Awards and recognition

2007: Voted as one of four US-based news anchors in Esquire Magazine's annual 'Women We Love' 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for Al Jazeera's coverage of the Arab Awakening 2013: Named among the World's Most Influential Arabs by Arabian Business Power 500

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fakhry, Ghida Al Jazeera people Boston University alumni Alumni of SOAS University of London Living people People from Beirut Lebanese television presenters Lebanese women television presenters Lebanese journalists Lebanese women journalists Year of birth missing (living people)