Ghada owais biography

Lebanese journalist for Al Jazeera (born 1977)

Ghada Owais, also spelled Ghada Oueiss, (Arabic: غادة كرم عويس Ghāda Karam ‘Owais) is a Lebanese newspaperman for Al Jazeera.

She was born on November 6, 1977, and attended the Lebanese Tradition, graduating in 1999.^[1] Owais coupled Al Jazeera in 2006.^[2] She speaks Arabic and English.^[3]

Biography

Owais was born in Beirut to swell Maronite Christian family. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mountain Communication from the Lebanese College, majoring in Radio and Video receiver in 1999.

She worked since an anchor and field in shape for the Lebanese ANB trench from 2004 to 2006. She received a training course liking the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London in 2004 see a training course with illustriousness BBC in Beirut in 2005. She had previously worked style a broadcaster and field newswoman for Al-Jadeed TV for top-notch year.

From 2001 to 2004, she was a journalist bracket correspondent for Al-Afkar magazine overexert 2000 to 2001, in evacuate to preparing and presenting programs for Voice of Lebanon Tranny for the period from 1999-2000.^[4]

Owais joined Al-Jazeera as a intelligence anchor on April 26, 2006. She is noted for absorption special coverage of several revitalization profile news stories, including:

• The Lebanese Dialogue from Doha groove May 2008
• Eye on Sudan indemnification from Khartoum in June 2008
• Ghada was the first broadcaster add up to enter the Gaza Strip trusty Al-Jazeera channel after the Asian war on Gaza, there hearten provide special daily coverage admire the situation after the conflict on Gaza for nearly uncomplicated month during January–February 2009
• She besides presented on Al-Jazeera the Maghreb news bulletin from Rabat
• She on the assumption that special coverage for the opt on the secession of grey Sudan from Khartoum, during which she conducted a live debate with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir in January 2011
• She covered interpretation presidential elections in Yemen domestic animals February 2012, where she sensible a dialogue with Lieutenant Universal Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, commander type the First Armored Division, who supported the Yemeni revolution
• She conducted an interview with the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai in distinction summer of 2012 and secret the visit of the Pontiff of the Vatican to Lebanon during the same period
• In Pace 2013, she presented in integrity field from the city ensnare Aleppo in northern Syria, worry pace with the second saint's day of the outbreak of character Syrian revolution.

Owais has been ethics target of several harassment, pressure, and disinformation campaigns by state-sponsored actors due to her quarterly, politics, gender, and her Christlike faith.

In 2020, images strange her private smartphone were taken in a spyware attack next to foreign agents. The images were doctored to sexualize them, paramount disseminated to accuse her slow promiscuity and prostitution. In Dec 2020, Owais sought legal condition in a US court encroach upon a number of key global political actors, including both grandeur crown prince of Saudi Peninsula and of the United Arabian Emirates for allegedly coordinating position disinformation and harassment campaigns accept her.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Awards

In 2013, Oueiss received honesty May Chidiac Foundation Award hunger for “Engaged Journalism”.

In 2023, Oueiss weas honored as a ‘World Woman Hero’ by the Planet Woman Foundation in Davos, complete demonstrating "the personal courage topmost professional commitment it takes know be a leading female Small screen journalist in the traditionally male-dominated Middle East”.

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