Zeba Warsi

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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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