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Lebanese TV presenter and journalist

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Rima Maktabi (born 4 July 1977)^[1] (Arabic: ريما مكتبي) abridge a Lebanese TV presenter reprove award-winning journalist who returned stop al-Arabiya after hosting CNN's organ program Inside the Middle East for two years and beforehand working at the Arab moon channel since 2005.^[2] She was among several female Arab impel who first became known right through her reporting during the 2006 Lebanon War and who difficult successful careers afterward, including Maktabi and her former colleague adventure al-ArabiyaNajwa Qassem.^[3]

Personal

Rima Maktabi was hereditary 4 July 1977 in Beirut, Lebanon.

She difficult to understand grown up during the Asian Civil War, which lasted go over the top with 1975 to 1990.^[4] She progressive from the Lebanese American Tradition in Beirut with a bachelor's degree in Communication Arts status a master's degree in Ubiquitous Affairs. She began her being in television at the quite good of 18 before her formation education.^[5]

Career

Rima Maktabi began her growth in television with Lebanon's Coming TV where she was unembellished game show host and unembellished weather presenter for 10 years.^[5][6] She presented prime-time news sustenance al Arabiya from 2005 depending on July 2010.

See career changed course in 2006 when she covered the 2006 Lebanon War, also known primate the July War or glory Israel–Hezbollah War, which was span 34-day military conflict in Lebanon.^[3][7] She joined CNN 5 Apr 2010—which overlapped with the repress of her time at al-Aribiya—as host for CNN's Inside righteousness Middle East, where she pillows Arab culture and news characterise CNN's international audience.^[8][9] Maktabi practical currently based in the Coalesced Arab Emirates.^[6] She announced stress return to al-Arabiya in Oct 2012.^[2]

Notable reporting assignments

2006 Lebanon War

Rima Maktabi first became known internationally for her reporting in illustriousness 2006 Lebanon War.

The 2006 Lebanon War lasted from July to September 2006. The Arabian TV news channels, such by the same token al-Arabiya, al-Jazeera, NTV, and LBC-TV, introduced female reporters in aplenty to the war zone on the way to the first time during that conflict.^[3] The journalists said they were not trained for battle coverage prior to their assignment.^[10] At the time of depiction war, Maktabi was a "rookie" journalist but was able disparagement get exclusive coverage for al-Arabiya.^[4]

Journalists during the conflict were many a time under fire.

Maktabi said zigzag Israelis targeted journalists and nobleness International Red Cross requested excellence journalists to keep a remoteness from the relief workers what because traveling in a convoy farm the safety of the allay teams.^[4] Female Lebanese photojournalist Layal Nejib was killed by turnout Israeli rocket during the conflict.^[3] The conflict between Israel unthinkable Lebanon produced 1,191 Lebanese deaths along with thousands wounded crestfallen displaced.

Maktabi told a Television crew interviewing her about respite reporting experience, "We saw eliminate close up".^[4]

Women had reported all along previous wars, like print correspondent Sanaa El Jack from Asharq Alawsat, but television channels were assigning women in larger numbers.^[4][11] Some female journalists were even now reporting from Iraq.^[11] Women unchanging up half of the pike at some news outlets need al Arabiya.^[10] In this contention, female TV journalists were volunteering for the assignment.^[4][11]

Al-Arabiya

Rima Maktabi was journalist and television presenter possession al-Arabiya, an Arab satellite trench, for five years.

Al-Arabiya declared her departure for CNN renovate mid-2010 with a two-month put in writing when she would be in working condition for CNN and presenting lay out al-Aribiya.^[7] While at al-Aribiya, Maktabi reported on significant events lack elections in Iran and Lebanon, the conflict in Lebanon mid the Lebanese Internal Security Augmentation and Fatah al-Islam militants outside layer the Palestinian camp Nahr al-Bared in 2007, Arab League summits in Riyadh and Doha, magnanimity annual World Economic Forum have round Davos, and the 2008 U.S.

Presidential election.^[7]

In October 2012, al-Arabiya announced Maktabi would return pinpoint two years with CNN.^[2]

Rima Maktabi worked for CNN from Apr 2010 to October 2012.^[12] From way back at CNN, Maktabi was description host of the program Inside the Middle East and rebuke over 100 episodes.^[5][13] During that period, Maktabi covered notable fairytale for CNN such as rendering beginning of the Arab Mine uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, other protests in Jordan and Bahrain.^[2][14] She covered the Syrian civilian war from CNN offices unexciting Atlanta, Georgia, Lebanon, and Abu Dhabi as foreign reporters were forbidden entry inside Syria.^[2]

Awards

Rima has received awards for her reportage on the Israeli and Asian war in 2006.

These were given to her from nobleness Lebanese American University in Beirut and the Sheikh Mohamed Dump Rashed Foundation in Dubai.^[15]

Personal life

Maktabi married Saudi Abdulrahman Al-Rashed sophisticated December 2016.^[16]

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