Nationality Syria Name Zina Yazji Occupation Anchor Role Journalist | Religion Christian Spouse Abed Fahd Children LeonaTaim | |
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Education American University of Beirut, Tishreen University People also search for Abed Fahd, George W. Fahd, Leona Fahd, Taim Fahd Profiles | ||
Zaina Yazigi (Arabic: زينة يازجي) is a Syrian journalist, news agency reporter and television news anchor.
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Career
Yazigi earned a BA in English Literature from Tishreen University and a degree in media from the American University in Beirut.
She started working for Reuters and then for the Associated Press in its Beirut bureau. Then, she became a reporter for CNBC in Syria. She, later, moved to the Syrian Television as a presenter of political programs for a year and a half. She has been an anchor for Al Arabiya. She presented the weekly political program Tahta Al-Daw (Under the Light) on Al Arabiya. She resigned from Al-Arabiya on May 11, 2011 due to the Syrian uprising.
Yazigi was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women by Arabian Business magazine in 2013.
Personal life
She is married to the Syrian actor Abed Fahed and has one daughter, Leona, and one son, Taim.
