Mishal Husain
Vorlage:Infobox journalist Mishal Husain (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973) is currently a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World, presenting Impact Asia between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as appearing on the BBC One weekend news bulletins. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast.
Biography
Husain also spelt (Hussain) was born in the United Kingdom, but grew up in the United Arab Emirates. She returned to the UK to attend Cobham Hall, an independent school in Cobham, Kent, when she was 12 years old. Her family originates from Pakistan.
Husain spent six months living in Russia (having studied Russian at school) and taught English in Moscow as well as taking the opportunity to travel through Russia, and states of the former Soviet Union including Uzbekistan and Georgia.
She studied Law at New Hall, Cambridge and graduated in 1995. After this, she completed a Master's degree in International and Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, producing a thesis on the legal status of Bosnian refugees in Europe.
She is married to Meekal Hashmi[1] with three sons - her eldest, Rafael[1] was born in 2004 and she had twin boys on June 19, 2006. She returned from maternity leave to present the evening news on December 17, 2006.
Career
Husain gained her first experience of journalism at the age of 18, working in Pakistan's English-language newspaper The News.
Her first job was at Bloomberg Television in London, where she spent two years. She joined the BBC in 1998 and, since then, has worked in a variety of roles: in the BBC’s Economics and Business Unit, as the corporation's Washington correspondent, on the daily Breakfast programme, on Asia Business Report (based in Singapore), and as a presenter of business news on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
She has interviewed many high-profile figures including Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
When the first series of Star Spell - a spin-off of Hard Spell that had only appeared before as a one-off episode - aired, Husain appeared as word pronouncer, replacing Nina Hossain. She continued in this role throughout the second series of Hard Spell.
Husain appeared (and came third out of four) in a round of the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind in 2010. Her specialised subject was the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis.
Husain is currently hosting BBC program "Impact Asia" which airs Monday to Friday on BBC World News.
References
- ↑ a b Hello Good Morning and Here's My Newsl Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2006
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