Al Jazeera English - About Us - News Presenters

Shiulie Ghosh

Shiulie Ghosh joined Al Jazeera English from ITV News where she was a correspondent and a presenter covering major events around the world.

Her reporting from Thailand on the Asian tsunami was awarded the 2006 Alfred I. Dupont Columbia News Broadcasting Award and in 2001 Shiulie was named Best Television News Journalist at the British Telecom Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards.

During the conflict in Kosovo, Shiulie was based in southern Italy, where she reported on the bombing missions flown by NATO crews. Post-conflict, she reported on the continuing tensions in the divided town of Mitrovica. Shiulie first joined ITV News as a general reporter in January 1998 and later spent three years as Home Affairs Editor of ITV News.

Shiulie has covered a wide range of prominent domestic stories for ITV News including the 7/7 suicide attacks, the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, and the death of the Queen Mother.

Darren Jordon
Darren Jordon joined Al Jazeera English from the BBC, where he regularly presented the One O’clock news and weekend news bulletins on BBC1. He often presented the flagship Ten O’clock news programme as well. Darren was one of the BBC’s most experienced newsreaders, and also presented on Breakfast, BBC World and News 24, the BBC’s 24 hour continuous news channel.

Prior to his appointment to Breakfast news in 2001, he was the Special Reporter for the One O’ Clock News. Darren’s career in journalism began as a sports broadcaster in South Africa in 1995. Darren joined BBC Sport as a broadcast journalist in 1998, as part of the BBC News 24 Sport team.

In addition to news, Darren has presented and reported for many other BBC programmes, including the BBC’s D-Day anniversary coverage, the Lord Mayor’s Show and the current affairs programme 4x4. Darren has also presented location reports for the BBC’s Holiday programme, and has reported from Jamaica, Turkey, Cyprus, the USA and Dubai.

Maryam Nemazee

Maryam Nemazee has covered major stories in world news as a reporter and presenter. Previously she was a news anchor for the 24-hour, international English-language news channel, Russia Today, broadcasting across the world.

As one of the channel’s main anchors Maryam covered high-profile stories such as the Iranian nuclear dispute, the War in Iraq, and the on-going Middle East conflict. In this role she developed a strong base of knowledge and understanding of world news, and particularly of key issues in the Middle East.

Maryam has carried out live anchoring on world events such as the inauguration of Bolivia’s first indigenous President (the ascendancy of the left across Latin America), and the hospitalisation of former Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon.

So Rahman

Award-winning journalist So (Sohail) Rahman brings to Al Jazeera English a wide range of expertise gained through 15 years of television reporting and presenting, including roles with Granada, ITV, BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

He was the first British Muslim man to host the Granada regional news and also to present the ITV National News.

For Granada Reports So made his mark as a location reporter in South Asia and the Middle East during the September 11th attacks in the United States, as the first ITV reporter to record the reaction inside Pakistan and throughout the region.

In 2003 So won the Royal Television Society’s prestigious Best Television Presenter Award and has also won the Best Presenter Award at the Asian Film Academy on three occasions for the BBC and twice for ITV Granada.

Kamahl Santamaria
Kamahl Santamaria’s career encompasses roles in news, sports and business reporting across the Asia-Pacific region.

For three years Kamahl was a business correspondent and presenter at Sky News Australia’s daily Sky Business Report.

Prior to that, he spent three years in his native New Zealand, working on TV3’s flagship 6pm news bulletin 3 News – covering news and sport; two of those years were as a reporter specialising in sport, but also covering general news.

Kamahl has covered major sporting events in New Zealand such as the America’s Cup 2000, and spent six months as a special project reporter working on the 2001 Atlantic Rowing Race, an international event dominated by New Zealanders in recent years.

Lauren Taylor
Lauren Taylor has in-depth experience in television journalism with the UK’s ITV and ITN News. Lauren was formerly economics correspondent for ITV News, a role which saw her file major business stories, including the UK’s 2005 Budget, the launch in Toulouse of the new giant Airbus A380, and the future of the 35-hour week in France.

Previously Lauren was a political correspondent for ITV News; her assignments included reporting live on the US 2004 Presidential Election from the Bush headquarters. Lauren covered the UK prime minister's controversial holidays in Italy and his visits to Washington. She also reported from the US on the aftermath of George W. Bush’s 2000 election victory.

Before taking up her political brief, Lauren reported on a range of major stories including the death of Princess Diana, ETA violence in Spain, the IRA bombing of Manchester, the London Docklands bomb and BSE. Lauren joined ITN, who produce the news for ITV, as a graduate trainee in 1992.

Sami Zeidan
Sami Zeidan has a wide range of international broadcasting experience from his roles with CNBC and CNN International.

Sami anchored the weekly news show Business Arabia broadcast on CNBC Europe, CNBC Asia and CNBC World as well as the daily stock market show Kalam Al Souq. He has also anchored the morning show Al Sabah Al Arabi in Arabic for CNBC Arabia.

Prior to that, Sami was a writer-anchor at CNN International in Atlanta for their World News and World Report. He also presented the political debate show Frontline, as well as the live political phone-in show Open to Question, and regular news bulletins.

Sami was a finalist for CNN Economic Reporter of the Year, 2000 and recipient of the 1999 Kamal Adham Award for Television Excellence. In 1995 he was awarded the Television Union’s ‘Report of the Year’ award.