Yalda Hakim

Yalda Hakim (2017)

Yalda Hakim (born June 25 or 26, 1983 in Kabul ) is an Afghan - Australian television presenter and journalist for the British television channel BBC News .

life and career

Yalda Hakim was born in the Afghan capital Kabul during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan . The family fled to Pakistan after six months and to Australia after two more years. Hakim attended a secondary school for girls in Parramatta City before successfully completing her bachelor's degree in media studies at Macquarie University from 2002 to 2004 . She graduated from Macleay College with a degree in journalism in 2005. She completed another degree in journalism in 2007 by distance learning from Monash University .

Hakim eventually found work as a journalist for the Australian television station SBS . In 2008 she returned to Kabul for his television program Dateline and reported from then on about the events there. For her work she was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize and nominated for the Young Australian Journalist of the Year . From 2011 Hakim was used as a moderator for Dateline. Only a year later, she was poached by the BBC and began working regularly as a presenter for BBC World News and BBC News from March 2013 . In October 2013, she interviewed the Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the program Newsnight .

In addition to English, Hakim speaks Persian , Dari and Pashto

Web links

Commons : Yalda Hakim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yalda Hakim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Yalda Hakin on bbc.co.uk