- Natasha Fatah
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Natasha Fatah Urdu: نتاشا فتح is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario.
In the summer of 2010, Fatah hosted the new CBC Radio One summer program Promised Land, a series which presents stories of harrowing, exciting and often-dangerous escapes to Canada, as told by the immigrants and refugees who lived through them.[1]
She is currently a producer at CBC Radio One's national current affairs radio show As It Happens,[2] Toronto beat reporter for their Ontario regional weekend morning show Fresh Air, and author of the column "Minority Report" in cbc.ca's Viewpoint section.
Fatah was born[when?] in Karachi, Pakistan and spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia between Riyadh and Jeddah; she has also lived in Amsterdam, Montreal and Mexico City. Fatah earned a degree in political science at the University of Toronto,[2] and then earned another degree in journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.[2]
Before her assignments in Toronto, she was a television and radio reporter for CBC Windsor,[2] filing for CBE radio and CBET-TV. In 1996, she was host of News from the Muslim World on Vision TV.
From 1999 to 2000, Fatah was co-chair of the Ontario New Democratic Youth.[3] In the wake of the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Fatah called for Howard Hampton to resign his leadership of the Ontario New Democratic Party.[4] Hampton did not do so.
Her father is Tarek Fatah.
References
- ^ "CBC announces summer line-up," Inside the CBC. May 26, 2010; Fatah, Natasha. "What police state? It's all a matter of perspective," Calgary Herald. July 10, 2010.
- ^ a b c d CBC.ca, "Analysis & Viewpoint: Natasha Fatah- Minority Report," URL accessed 24 February 2007.
- ^ "Power struggle brewing in Ontario NDP: Some members critical of Hargrove, others unhappy with Hampton," Standard, St. Catharines, Ontario: September 27, 1999, pg. A.7.
- ^ Mark Stevenson, "Ontario NDP says Buzz can stay," Calgary Herald, September 26, 1999, pg. A.5.
External links
- Minority Report column and biography (cbc.ca)
- Fresh Air (CBC Radio One Toronto)
- Promised Land (cbc.ca)
- http://torontoist.com/2010/07/promised_land.php (torontoist.com)
- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/its-muslim-kids-not-parents-who-are-embracing-a-politicized-islam/article2087476/
Categories:- Living people
- Canadian columnists
- Canadian television journalists
- Canadian radio journalists
- Canadian Muslims
- Canadian people of Pakistani descent
- Muhajir people
- People from Karachi
- Ryerson University alumni
- People from Toronto
- University of Toronto alumni
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- CBC Radio hosts
- Canadian women journalists
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