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Nawal Al-Maghafi (born 1990 or 1991) is a Yemeni-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. She currently works for the BBC.[1] She joined BBC Newsnight in May 2023 as an international correspondent.[2][3]

Personal life

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Al-Maghafi was raised in Yemen.[4] She attended the University of Nottingham, where she earned a degree in Economics with Politics.[3][5]

Career

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Journalism

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After completing university, Al-Maghafi returned to Yemen, where she began making videos abut the Yemeni revolution in 2011.[5] That year she also interviewed then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.[6] She later interviewed Ali Al Imad and figureheads in the Houthi insurgency.[7] In 2015, Al-Maghafi covered the peace talks between Houthi and General People's Congress delegates in Switzerland.[8] Al-Maghafi continued her reporting in Yemen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with her reports discussing the government cover-ups of cases in the country.[9] She later produced a documentary, Yemen’s Covid Cover Up, from her reporting.[10]

Al-Maghafi joined the BBC in 2011,[11] where she produced reports on Yemen for BBC News at Ten, BBC Our World and BBC Arabic.[5] In 2018, Al-Maghafi was nominated for the Royal Television Society's Young Talent of the Year award.[5] She joined BBC Newsnight in May 2023 as an international correspondent.[2][3]

Documentaries

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Al-Maghafi's 2016 documentary, Starving Yemen, explored the on-going humanitarian crisis in Yemen, caused by bombing in the Yemeni civil war.[12][13] Her 2017 documentary, The Funeral Bombing, focused on a 2016 airstrike on a funeral in Sanaa.[12]

Her 2019 documentary, Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade, won two News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 2020 in the categories Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine and Best Story in a Newsmagazine.[14][15]

In 2022, Al-Maghafi's documentary Yemen’s Covid Cover Up won an News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form.[16]

In 2023, Al-Maghafi released This World: Murder in Mayfair, a documentary exploring the 2008 murder of Martine Vik Magnussen in London.[11][17]

References

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  1. ^ "BBC News - Our World, Escaping Europe". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  2. ^ a b Wilson, Amy (2023-02-28). "Nawal Al-Maghafi to join BBC Newsnight". ResponseSource. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  3. ^ a b c Ahmed, Mariam (2023-02-28). "Al-Maghafi named international correspondent at BBC Newsnight". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  4. ^ "Two Eyewitness Accounts of Catastrophe in the Yemen". Council for Arab-British Understanding. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  5. ^ a b c d Holman, Kate (2018-02-26). "Meet...Nawal Al-Maghafi". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  6. ^ al-Maghafi, Nawal (2017-12-05). "Ali Abdullah Saleh: Meeting the man who believed himself invincible". Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  7. ^ "MBI Al Jaber Lecture Series: 'A Lens on the Waves of Political Change in Yemen' by Nawal Al Maghafi". www.mbifoundation.com. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  8. ^ al-Maghafi, Nawal (2015-12-27). "EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes at Yemen's peace talks in Switzerland". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  9. ^ Al-Maghafi, Nawal (2020-12-14). "'We have no oxygen': First journalist to access Yemen after Covid discovers major cover up in country of her birth". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  10. ^ "Yemen's COVID Cover-Up". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  11. ^ a b Al-Maghafi, Nawal (2023-03-28). "Martine Vik Magnussen: Billionaire's son admits role in death to BBC". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  12. ^ a b "MBI Al Jaber Lecture Series : 'Catastrophe Unfolding in Yemen' – Film Screening by Nawal Al Maghafi". www.mbifoundation.com. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  13. ^ "BBC Screening: Starving Yemen + Q&A". Frontline Club. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  14. ^ "News 2020 Nominees". The Emmys. 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  15. ^ "FRONTLINE (PBS) Wins Four News & Documentary Emmy Awards". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  16. ^ "FRONTLINE Honored with Four News and Documentary Emmy Awards". GBH. 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  17. ^ "Everything To Know About 'Murder in Mayfair'". Grazia. 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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