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Spouse Chris Kayaniotes (m. 2010) Education Ryerson University, University of Toronto Similar Aarti Pole, Rosemary Barton, Tarek Fatah | ||
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Natasha Fatah is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently a host for CBC News Network.
Contents
- Natasha fatah throws to power politics with rosemary barton cbc bumper
- Whats your Canada Looking ahead to CBC2017
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
What's your Canada? Looking ahead to #CBC2017
Early life and education
Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan and spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh and Jeddah; she has also lived in Amsterdam, Montreal and Mexico City. Fatah earned a degree in political science at the University of Toronto, and then earned another degree in journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
Her father, broadcaster and author Tarek Fatah, is from a Bohras Punjabi family. Her mother, Nargis Tapal, hails from a prominent Shia Bohra family of Gujarati origin.
Career
Fatah wrote a viewpoint column for CBC.ca called "Minority Report" from 2004 - 2013.
Fatah was a television and radio reporter for CBC Windsor, filing for CBE radio and CBET-TV. In 1996, she was host of News from the Muslim World on Vision TV.
In the summer of 2010, Fatah hosted the new CBC Radio One summer program Promised Land, a series which presents stories about refugees to Canada.
She was a producer at CBC Radio One's national current affairs radio show As It Happens, Toronto beat reporter for their Ontario regional weekend morning show Fresh Air, and author of the column "Minority Report" in cbc.ca's Viewpoint section.
Fatah has produced documentaries in Canada, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.
From 1999 to 2000, Fatah was co-chair of the Ontario New Democratic Youth. In the wake of the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Fatah called for Howard Hampton to resign his leadership of the Ontario New Democratic Party.