Hala Gorani
Hala Gorani was born in Seattle, Washington, United States on March 1st, 1970 and is the Journalist. At the age of 54, Hala Gorani biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Hala Basha-Gorani (born 1 March 1970) is an American journalist who works as an anchor and reporter for CNN International, a London-based corporation.
Hala Gorani, CNN's current anchor, currently anchors the CNN's Hala Gorani Tonight at 8 p.m. CET.
Jim Clancy co-hosted Your World Today with Jim Clancy from February 2009 to April 2014 from CNN's Atlanta headquarters.
Early life
Gorani was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1970. She comes from "quite an international background," she says. ... "I am a citizen of the United States with Syrian and French parents."
Gorani was mainly born in Paris, France. She has also lived in Algeria. Her name derives from hla (), a common Arabic word meaning "halo (around the moon). She graduated from Institut d'études politiques (better known as Sciences Po) in Paris in 1995. She received a Bachelor of Science in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., and hails from Sciences Po. Gorani claims she is a foreigner wherever she goes due to her multi-national experiences during her formative years, the sound of her name, and her accent.
Gorani is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
Personal life
Gorani considers Paris as her home, which is also where her mother resides.
She worked at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from 2004 to 2014, and then moved to London in 2014.
Yann Moix, a French novelist, dedicated his first book Jubilations Vers le Ciel to her in 1996.
On June 14, 2015, Gorani married German CNN photojournalist Christian Strobbin in Jardin Majorelle, Morocco.
Louis Gorani St. James, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dog, appears on her Instagram account often with her and her partner. The dog is the subject of their own Instagram account, which they used to film Louis the dog's exploits.
Career
Gorani began her career as a journalist for La Voix du Nord and Agence France-Presse before joining France 3 in 1994. She joined CNN in 1998 as an anchor for CNN International's European breakfast show CNN Today after a stint at Bloomberg Television in London. She has since been from every Middle East country. After Al Qaeda suicide bombers attacked two hotels in Amman, Jordan, in November 2005, Gorani was one of the first television reporters on the ground in Amman, Jordan. She reported Israel's unilateral disengagement policy from Gaza earlier this year. She covered the 2006 Lebanon War from Lebanon, earning CNN the Edward R. Murrow Award in the summer of 2006. She anchored CNN's coverage of the respective French presidential elections in 2002 and 2007.
Gorani was one of the nation's then president, Hosni Mubarak, who was granted a News and Documentary Emmy for the network's coverage of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that resulted in Hosni Mubarak's ouster. She covered Paris's January Charlie Hebdo massacre and the November ISIS attacks in 2015.
At the Monte-Carlo Television Festival this year, Gorani also covered the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, for which CNN's coverage was recognized with a Golden Nymph award, one of the highest accolades in international journalism. Gorani goes out of her anchoring duties to cover major breaking news events. She was one of a small group of journalists allowed into Syria for the first time since the demonstrations began to cover the situation in Syria in late June. She has covered Jordan and Egypt before, and her coverage of the Arab Spring helped CNN win a Peabody Award in 2012.
Gorani attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she moderated the closing session that included many business and political figures, including Tony Blair, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO James Dimon.
Gorani formerly appeared on CNN International, the monthly program that broadcasts reports on the region's most influential social, political, and cultural issues. During her five years as host, she covered a variety of exciting and thought-provoking stories, including poverty in oil-rich Bahrain; everyday challenges for artists in Iraq; and gay life in the Middle East, which was first on international television and a recipient of a Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) award.
Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Amr Moussa, Rafik Hariri, Saeb Erakat, Nouri al-Maliki, Ehud Barak, Nehud Barak, the Dalai Lama, Shimon Peres, and Carla Bruni were among other subjects interviewed by Gorani. Gorani refrains from discussing her political and religious convictions, citing the importance of career autonomy as the root of this.
Gorani was named an honorary doctorate by George Mason University in May 2015 and gave the commencement address to the next year's graduating students.
Gorani was a central participant of the massive CNN team that covered the uproar, aftermath, and probe into terrorist attacks in Paris, France, killings of 130 people over the weekend.
Gorani was nominated for another News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Manchester's Concert Attack. "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun" was recognized by the Emmy Award in the same year.
Gorani said in a commencement address that these moments are those where one can say that the job made a difference; and being different makes a person memorable. The students were encouraged to cultivate their differences, and from them the students would discover their strengths.
Gorani has been a late night anchor based in Lviv, western Ukraine, since the Russian invasion in eastern Ukraine in March 2022.
Awards and recognition
- 2018: News and Documentary Emmy win for "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun."
- 2018: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Manchester Concert Attack.
- 2016: Television Personality of the Year, Association for International Broadcasting.
- 2015: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, George Mason University.
- 2015: Named one of the most powerful women by Forbes Woman Middle East.
- 2012: News and Documentary Emmy win for coverage of the Egyptian revolution.
- 2012: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form (Anderson Cooper 360).
- 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for the network's coverage of the Arab Spring.
- 2011–2015: Named among 100 Most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine.
- 2007: Edward R. Murrow Award for the network's coverage of the continuing coverage of the Middle East conflict.