Laila Al-Arian is an American Emmy-award-winning
broadcast journalist
Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...
for the
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) (Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-jazīrah, IPA: l (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ , referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is a Qatari international state-owned public media conglomerate headquartered at Qatar Radio and T ...
. She is the executive producer for the
Al Jazeera English documentary series
''Fault Lines''. She co-authored ''Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians'' with
Chris Hedges.
She is married to American scholar of Islamic studies,
Jonathan A. C. Brown
Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has served as an associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of ...
.
She produced the
Al Jazeera English special on the
Palestine Papers
The Palestine Papers is a collection of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them between 23 and 26 January 2011. Nearly 1,700 documents from the office of the main PLO neg ...
in January 2011, a four-day program on the largest diplomatic leak in the history of the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She raised national attention with her column on
''Homeland'' which described it as "TV's most Islamophobic show".
She has produced several documentaries, including the
Peabody-winning investigative report ''Made in Bangladesh''.
In 2013, she spoke at
New America Foundation
New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a think tank in the United States founded in 1999. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, educa ...
to discuss the history and impact of surveillance on targeted communities.
Since graduating from the
Columbia School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City.
Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism sc ...
in 2006, Laila Al-Arian's work has appeared in ''
The Nation
''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper t ...
'', ''
The Independent
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'', ''
The Guardian
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'', ''
Huffington Post'', ''
Salon'', and several other publications.
She is the daughter of
Sami Al-Arian
Sami Amin Al-Arian ( ar, سامي أمين العريان; born January 14, 1958) is a Kuwaiti-born Islamist and political activist of unverified Palestinian origin who was a computer engineering professor at University of South Florida. Durin ...
. On October 1, 2018, Laila won an Emmy for her film, ''The Ban: The human cost of Trump's travel ban''.
Works
When your father is accused of terrorismOur Veterans Have SpokenThe Other War: Iraq Vets Bear WitnessTV's Most Islamophobic Show
References
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American reporters and correspondents
American Sunni Muslims
American women journalists
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women