Zain Awan

Zain Awan (born 26 August 1981) is an Indian born international TV Journalist of the Arab origin. He has worked with The Times of India and various international TV channels including NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and most recently Al Jazeera English.

At the age of 23, he worked as NHK’s South Asia correspondent and covered the Asian tsunami disaster and filed special reports on post-tsunami life in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu.

Previously Zain was based in New Delhi and freelanced with APTN, Sky News and China Central TV from across India, covering the Chinese Prime Minister's historic visit to India (2005), Kashmiri cross-border bus and President Musharraf’s ‘Cricket Diplomacy’.

He has also extensively covered the India-Pakistan relations, that added to his knowledge of Kashmiri affairs.

In 2002 Zain moved to Madrid to work with Oscar-award winning banner El Deseo on a docu-drama, called Cesar y Zain, on relations between Islam and the West after the 9/11 attacks. The film was about two young men- one Muslim, played by Zain himself and another Christian, played by Cesar, in two different geographical locations, meet through internet playing chess. The two boys swap their families for four weeks in bridging the dialogue of civilization as against the clash of civilization.

Education and early life

Zain spent most of his childhood in Delhi and completed Bachelors degree in English literature and Post Graduation in TV Journalism from Delhi. Coming from an educated and influential family, Zain chose journalism as his career over family business.

Sources

*http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6FFBD861-DCA3-48B2-8354-6DC4C4856DA7.htm
*http://www.ameinfo.com/98633.html