Shihab Rattansi

Shihab Rattansi

Shihab Rattansi works for Al Jazeera English as a news anchor in their Washington DC Broadcast Center. He regularly anchors the Al Jazeera Newshour [D.C.] in the weekdays along with Ghida Fakhry.

Before joining Al Jazeera English Shihab was a CNN International anchor based in Atlanta, Georgia. At CNN he regularly anchored "World News" during the weekends, and sometimes anchored shows such as "Insight", "Your World Today", "Global Challenges", "CNN Today", and "World News Asia". While working for CNN, Rattansi has presented the breaking news stories involving the capture of Saddam Hussein, the 2004 Tsunami, Beslan school hostage crisis, 7 July 2005 London bombings,the rape of Muktar Mai in Pakistan with international coverage, and the death of Pope John Paul II and the trial of Saddam Hussein . Rattansi formerly worked for Channel NewsAsia in Singapore.While there, he covered Indonesia's turmoil involving the fall of political leader Suharto.

He was also involved in a Hollywood film entitled The Death of Salvador Dali. Rattansi is a Winner of 2006 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

Rattansi was born and raised in the United Kingdom and holds a degree in art history from University College London. His grandparents were from India and his parents from Kenya. His brother, author and Sony award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi, has worked for Al Jazeera Arabic's "Top Secret" strand , The BBC's Today program, Bloomberg and launched the developing world's first financial news channel from the Middle East. He is currently working for the Iranian news network, Press TV.

External links

* see also: http://www.Presstv.com/
* http://english.aljazeera.net/English


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