Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed (born 1968) is a British television newsreader and reporter on Channel 4 News. She was born in London, United Kingdom, and is married with two children.

Ahmed was educated at Wimbledon High School, a girls' independent school in Wimbledon, London, and studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford between 1986 and 1989 (winning the Philip Geddes Journalism Prize during her time there), before doing a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at City University, London. She joined the BBC as a Trainee in 1990. Ahmed was a BBC journalist 1994 to 1997 and also worked as a presenter on BBC World and News 24.

As the BBC's Los Angeles correspondent she covered the O.J. Simpson case, before working as an anchor and political correspondent in Berlin for Deutsche Welle TV.

Ahmed joined Channel 4 News in April 2000 shortly after having her first child after several years as a correspondent and presenter at the BBC. She became a presenter after having her second child in July 2002.

She combines reporting and presenting, working in her passion for old movies, whenever she can. Her documentary series "Islam Unveiled" on the status of Muslim women around the world, was aired on Channel 4 last year.

References

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[http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?section=37 St Edmund's Hall Oxford, Famous Graduates]
# [http://www.channel4.com/news/authors/samira+ahmed/106255#bio Ahmed's profile on Channel 4 News]

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2004_02_wed_01.shtml BBC Radio Programme: Islam Unveiled]

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