Yemeni-British journalist and filmmaker
Nawal Al-Maghafi (born 1990 or 1991) is a Yemeni-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. She currently works for the BBC. She joined "BBC Newsnight" in May 2023 as an international correspondent.
Personal life.
Al-Maghafi was raised in Yemen. She attended the University of Nottingham, where she earned a degree in Economics with Politics.
Career.
Journalism.
After completing university, Al-Maghafi returned to Yemen, where she began making videos about the Yemeni revolution in 2011. That year she also interviewed then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. She later interviewed Ali Al Imad and figureheads in the Houthi insurgency. In 2015, Al-Maghafi covered the peace talks between Houthi and General People's Congress delegates in Switzerland. Al-Maghafi continued her reporting in Yemen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with her reports discussing the government cover-ups of cases in the country. She later produced a documentary, "Yemen’s Covid Cover Up", from her reporting.
Al-Maghafi joined the BBC in 2011, where she produced reports on Yemen for "BBC News at Ten", BBC "Our World" and BBC Arabic. In 2018, Al-Maghafi was nominated for the Royal Television Society's Young Talent of the Year award. She joined "BBC Newsnight" in May 2023 as an international correspondent.
Documentaries.
Al-Maghafi's 2016 documentary, "Starving Yemen", explored the on-going humanitarian crisis in Yemen, caused by bombing in the Yemeni civil war."" Her 2017 documentary, "The Funeral Bombing", focused on a 2016 airstrike on a funeral in Sanaa.
Her 2019 documentary, "Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade", won two News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 2020 in the categories Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine and Best Story in a Newsmagazine"."
In 2022, Al-Maghafi's documentary "Yemen’s Covid Cover Up" won an News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form.
In 2023, Al-Maghafi released "This World: Murder in Mayfair", a documentary exploring the 2008 murder of Martine Vik Magnussen in London.
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