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Shaimaa Khalil is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC for more than ten years. She’s Egyptian-British and has vast experience in international news reporting.

In the summer of 2011, while she was covering the Arab Spring in her home country Egypt, Shaimaa was detained by the military in Tahrir Square.

In 2012 she was appointed as the BBC World Service Middle East Regional Editor.

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Since then, she has reported across the Middle East, including in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.

In 2013 she was appointed as lead presenter on BBC World Service Radio’s morning news programme ‘Newsday’.

In 2014, Shaimaa was appointed as the BBC’s Pakistan Correspondent.

During her two years in the country, she reported on the some of the biggest news stories there including the Peshawar school massacre. She also reported from neighbouring Afghanistan during that period.  In the same year she won the AIB award for International Radio Pe Who Is Shaimaa Khalil? Everything To Know About The BBC ... BUKI