User:Nramdani

Nabila Ramdani is a Paris-born freelance journalist of Algerian descent who specialises in Anglo-French issues, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World. Still in her twenties, Nabila started her journalistic career in 2007.

Nabila, who speaks French, English and Arabic, writes regular columns for the Guardian, the Observer, the London Evening Standard, and the New Statesman.

She also writes features and news stories for a wide range of other Fleet Street publications, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, and the Sunday Times.

Her work also appears in Middle Eastern papers such as The National (UAE), Gulf News and Daily News Egypt, and she contributes to French publications including Le Parisien, Marianne, L'Express, and Le Figaro.

Her articles are regularly syndicated to European, American, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, African, and North African newspapers and magazines.

Nabila is a well-established commentator and frequent contributor to the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky, CNN, PBS, CBS, Russia Today, and other various international channels.

She is a regular guest on a range of TV and radio programmes, including Al Jazeera's Inside Story, the Sky News Press Preview, BBC’s Newsnight, the Today programme, Woman’s Hour, BBC 4 World News Today, The World Tonight, BBC News 24, Newshour, The World Today on the BBC World Service, BBC World News Impact Asia with Mishal Hussain, GMT BBC World News with George Alagiah, the World Update, Breakfast News, World Have Your Say, the Asian Network, Radio Five Live, Europe Today and Russia Today's CrossTalk.

Nabila also has experience working for French TV and radio stations such as France Télévisions (France 2, France 3 and France 5), Canal +, France Inter, Europe 1, RTL, BFM, among others.

She has worked on the other side of the camera too, producing documentaries for prime time television in the UK, including “Who Killed the Playboy Earl?” (Channel 4/Cutting Edge) and “The Mystery of the Missing Earl” (ITV1/Real Crime) on the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Islamic affairs are at the very heart of most of Nabila’s journalistic work. This strong interest is also reflected in Nabila’s involvement in various organisations and participation in public events.

Nabila is a Fellow on the pioneering UN Alliance of Civilisations Programme which intends to contribute to an understanding between peoples from Muslim-majority countries from the Arab World, and from Europe and North America. She is also an Alumni of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) Network.

She is a regular speaker on Muslim-related issues at Wilton Park (which is attached to the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office), the Qatar Foundation (The Doha Debates & Northwestern University in Qatar), and has collaborated with the League of Arab States, the Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO), the Open Society Institute, the Franco-British Council, the Search for Common Ground Think-Tank, and the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) in Paris on similar topics.

Nabila is a consultant to the British Council and has advised on projects such as ‘Our Shared Europe’. This is a response to one of the major challenges facing our continent today – the growing mistrust between Muslim communities and wider European society.

Nabila is a winner of the inaugural European Muslim Woman of Influence (EMWI) Award 2010.

She is also a nominee for the EU Journalist Award - Together Against Discrimination 2010.

Nabila holds an MPhil in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an MPhil from Paris 7 University in British and American History and Literature.

She has an Agrégation (France's most selective qualifying exam for lectureship) in English and has held teaching positions at Oxford University, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,and Paris 7 University.

http://nabilaramdani.com/