Mishal Husain
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Mishal Husain presents Breakfast from Friday to Sunday each week. |
Mishal Husain (sometimes spelt
Mishal Hussein) (born
1973) is a newsreader for the
BBC's international news channel
BBC World. She is also a presenter on the
BBC arts, media, entertainment and culture talk show
Hardtalk Extra, and also works on
BBC One's
morning news programme Breakfast.
Husain was born in the
United Kingdom, but grew up in the
United Arab Emirates. She returned to the UK to attend
Cobham Hall boarding school in
Kent when she was 12 years old. Her family originate from
Pakistan and she maintains close links with the country.
Husain spent six months living in
Russia (having studied
Russian at school) and taught
English in
Moscow as well as taking the opportunity to travel through Russia and states of the former
Soviet Union including remote regions such as
Uzbekistan and
Georgia.
She read Law at
Cambridge University and graduated in 1995. After this she completed a Master's degree in International and Comparative Law at the
European University Institute in
Florence, producing a thesis on the legal status of
Bosnian refugees in Europe.
She is married with three sons, having had one son in 2004 and gave birth to twin boys on Monday
19 June 2006.
Husain gained her first experience of
journalism, at the age of 18, working on Pakistan's
The News, a widely-read English language newspaper.
Her first job was at
Bloomberg Television in London, where she spent two years. She joined the BBC in 1998 and since then has worked in a variety of roles: in the BBC's Economics and Business Unit, as the organisation's
Washington correspondent, on the daily
Breakfast programme, on the
Asia Business Report (based in
Singapore), and as a presenter of business news on both BBC World and
BBC News 24.
She is widely respected as an incisive and intelligent interviewer and has interviewed many high-profile figures including:
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy US Secretary of State
Richard Armitage, Pentagon adviser
Richard Perle,
Rwanda's President
Paul Kagame, and
Israel's former Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu.
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