Halla Mohieddeen (born 13 October 1979) is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.

Biography

Mohieddeen was born to a Lebanese father and Scottish mother. She studied Interpreting and Translating at the

Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University ( gd, Oilthigh Heriot-Watt) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and subsequently granted univ ...

. She previously presented the ''Morning News'' and ''Middle East Matters'' programmes for Paris-based 24 hour international news channel,

France 24 France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish and are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-M ...

. The Heriot-Watt University graduate from the Scottish Borders has also worked for a number of Chinese TV and radio stations, including

CCTV Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly t ...

, Xinhua News Network Corporation and Beijing Radio 774. From April 2017 to June 2018, she was the anchor of the nightly Scottish news programme '' STV News Tonight'' on

STV2 STV2 was a British local television network in Scotland, operating five city-based TV licences serving Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr. It was owned and operated by STV Group plc. Initially broadcast as two separate stations � ...

. She was a Principal Presenter with Al Jazeera English in Doha. Mohieddeen is multilingual, fluent in English, French, Mandarin Chinese and German. She also has specialist knowledge of International affairs, Scottish and British politics, Chinese politics and society and marine and environmental conservation. She lives in Glasgow with her Sardinian-born husband Tommaso Pani. Mohieddeen joined

Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the hea ...

in late 2022.

References

Living people Scottish television presenters STV News newsreaders and journalists 1979 births People from Peebles British people of Lebanese descent Alumni of Heriot-Watt University Scottish women television presenters Scottish women journalists {{Scotland-bio-stub