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Zeba Warsi

About Zeba @Zebaism

Zeba Warsi is a foreign affairs producer, based in Washington DC. She's a Columbia Journalism School graduate with an M.A. in Political journalism. She was one of the leading members of the NewsHour team that won the 2024 Peabody award for News for our coverage of the war in Gaza and Israel.

At the NewsHour, she covers foreign affairs with a focus on human-centric stories and long-form special projects. Since 2022, Warsi has covered a series of important global events including the ongoing war in the Middle East, with a focus on interviewing people in Gaza under challenging circumstances, the twin earthquakes in Turkey and northwest Syria, the war in Sudan with a focus on atrocities in West Darfur, life under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the 2022 women-led protests in Iran and the worsening humanitarian crisis in East Africa among other issues.

Prior to the NewsHour, Warsi was based in New Delhi for eight years, covering politics, extremism, sexual violence, social movements and human rights as a special correspondent with CNN's India affiliate CNN-News18.

Warsi’s long-form investigation, into complaints of sexual assault and abuse in ICE detention center won the 2024 SAJA Award for outstanding story. She has won the UNFPA Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity (2021) for a long-form feature on how protest politics in India acquired feminist undertones; the Young Professional of the Year award at the 2020 ENBA Awards for her reportage of the citizenship law protests, religious violence and the covid pandemic in India. Her investigative report on child-trafficking in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh won the 2019 Red Ink Award Special Mention for Outstanding Journalism, human rights category. She was also a finalist at the 2019 Asian TV Awards in the best news story category.

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Zeba’s Recent Stories

World Oct 01

Israel escalates siege of Gaza City as Hamas reviews proposal to end war

Hamas is still reviewing the U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza that was presented by President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. But the war continues, and Israel blocked a flotilla of ships trying to…

Nation Sep 30

At gathering of military leaders, Trump hints at deployment in U.S. cities

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke to nearly the entire senior officer corps of the military. It was an unprecedented gathering at a Marine base south of Washington. Hegseth announced new directives, and the president laid out a…

World Sep 29

What’s in the plan to end the Gaza war proposed by Trump and Netanyahu

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan to end the war in Gaza. But Hamas has yet to agree, and there are questions about its implementation. Nick Schifrin reports.

World Sep 25

Families of Americans killed in West Bank demand accountability and justice

Extremist Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has recently been its highest since the U.N. started recording. Over the last two years, several Americans have allegedly been among those killed there. Amna Nawaz sat down with…

World Sep 23

Trump suggests Ukraine could reclaim territory from Russia

President Trump announced an extraordinary shift in policy on Ukraine. He has previously suggested Ukraine would have to give up territory to make peace, but today he said it could win back areas occupied or annexed by Russia since 2014.

World Sep 22

Brazil’s Lula pushes for ‘civilized relationship’ with U.S. amid tensions with Trump

World dignitaries are gathering this week for the UN General Assembly. The first speech will come from Brazil's president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula's predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, has become an explosive issue in U.S.-Brazilian relations. President Trump levied a…

World Sep 17

UN commission accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. Lawyers offer opposing views on findings

An independent, international commission attached to the UN’s Human Rights Council released its report this week, accusing Israel of an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The commission said statements made by Israeli authorities are “direct evidence of genocidal intent.”…

World Sep 15

Rubio affirms U.S. support for Israel’s vision of military victory in Gaza

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Doha to meet with Qatar’s leaders following unprecedented Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders last week. Earlier Monday, Rubio appeared with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem as the two presented a…

World Sep 12

Son of detained Hong Kong journalist Jimmy Lai on Beijing’s crackdown on speech

A Hong Kong court is set to deliver a verdict soon for democracy activist and media magnate Jimmy Lai, who has been detained for five years. He’s accused of sedition and collusion with foreign forces, but his supporters call the…

World Sep 10

The potential consequences of Israel’s strike on Hamas in Qatar

The leader of the United Arab Emirates visited Doha to express solidarity with Qatar, one day after an unprecedented Israeli attack on the Gulf nation. Israel's airstrikes that targeted Hamas's political leaders reportedly failed to kill them, but rattled the…

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