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BIOGRAPHY

Samira Ahmed is a presenter and correspondent for Channel 4 News. Previously she was an anchor on BBC World, News 24 and a reporter on Newsnight and the Today programme.

During her time at the BBC she led the coverage of the OJ Simpson case, before moving to Europe to work as an anchor and political correspondent in Berlin.

At Channel 4 she has specialised in social affairs and the arts - from profiling our love affair with the now defunct hovercraft and exposing the discrimination against children conceived through donor sperm and eggs, to interviewing Tim Burton and making features on cinema and design.

She fronted the documentary, Islam Unveiled for Channel 4, exploring the status of Muslim women and has lectured on terrorism, Islamic radicalism and feminism.

She speaks fluent Hindi/Urdu and German.

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