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Rageh Omaar Biography

Birth Name:Rageh Omaar

Birth Place:Mogadishu, Somalia,

Profession Writer

Fast Facts

  • Won the Arab Media Watch Award in 2008 for excellence in journalism
  • Attended New College at the University of Oxford where he studied Modern History
  • His first job in journalism was as a trainee for a newspaper called "The Voice․"
  • Rose to prominence reporting from Iraq as a BBC world affairs correspondent
  • Started work for al-Jazeera English in 2006 and started hosting "Witness," the weekday documentary series
  • His second book, "Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain," was published by Viking in 2006
  • In 2005, his book "Revolution Day; The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq" was published