Rageh Omaar on BBc Question Time (Part5)

See Rageh Omaar's BBC Videos: http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=rageh%20omaar%...

See Rageh Omaar in Hargeisa (Somaliland)and other countries, filming Child Slavery on BBC 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1306704210917722516

Born in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Omaar is a son of a wealthy Isaaq businessman from the north of Somalia. His family were originally from Hargeisa in the Republic of Somaliland. Omaar came to Britain when he was 6. He was educated at two independent schools: at the Dragon School in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Cheltenham College in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before reading Modern History at New College at the University of Oxford. His career highlights include reporting live from war-torn Somalia and Iraq.

He began his journalistic career as a trainee for The Voice newspaper, and in 1991 he moved to Ethiopia where he freelanced as a foreign correspondent, working mainly for the BBC World Service. A year later, he returned to London to work as a producer and broadcast journalist for the BBC. He moved to South Africa after being appointed the BBC's Africa correspondent - his wife and children were based there through 2004, and his regular commuting made domestic life difficult.

Career: Rageh Omaar established himself as an internationally recognised journalist when he reported for the BBC during the American led invasion of Iraq.

It was during this time that he was nicknamed the "Scud Stud" by the New York Post.

Since leaving the BBC he has presented a number of documentaries and written two books. He joined the new english channel Al Jazeera international.Rageh Omaar presents the channel's daily documentary strand Witness. The programme gives voice to actual witnesses of global affairs, featuring human stories made by storytellers from all walks of life, together with expert analysis, interviews and in-depth discussion. Content is also gathered from the channel's broadcast centres and draws on a new breed of video journalists reaching parts of the world often ignored. Witness also brings together the best documentaries from around the world, and allows air time for access-driven video journalists.

Well Done Rageh, proud to be British and Somali. ...

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The winners of the 16th annual Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by PCI:Fitch, will be announced at a ceremony at the Café Royal, London, on Wednesday 4 July, hosted by Al Jazeera English presenter and writer Rageh Omaar.

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Film Show and Q&A with Rageh Omaar

Plus Paul Sapin (Director) Ziba Mir Hosseini (London Middle East Institute) Elaheh Rostami Povey (School of Oriental and African Studies)

7pm, Thursday 14th June

London Irish Centre, 52 Camden Square (off Camden Road), London, NW1 9XB.

Near Camden Road BR, Camden Town tube

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The Countrybookshop Spring Peak Festival 2007 will be held from 18th May to 27th May 2007. Authors appearing at the festival include John Major, Rageh Omaar, Marina Lewycka, Tony Juniper, Louis De Berniers, Mark Tully and William Dalrymple.

Rageh Omaar, TV Journalist, talks about his childhood in Somalia and growing up a Muslim in Britain on the 23rd and on the 24th Tony Juniper, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, discusses 'How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet?

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I was born in Somaliland, the self-declared republic in the north of Somalia, where my relatives still live.

A couple of miles outside the capital Hargeisa is a vast and flat savannah landscape that still belongs to nomads who herd camels and goats.

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This World: Slave Children with Rageh Omaar will be broadcast on Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 2100 BST on BBC Two.

[yoryder04]

oh my god ,this racist people ,why is this people really care about the color???

[nsgunner]

What people u talking about ?

[unimatrixzero52]

viva somaliland .........stay proud people... we goin international ..

one|love

[desirejoseph26]

rageh omaar would be such a great leader for Africa.

[MrPp202]

Basically i m not from somalia but i love my Somalian brothers and sisters and Rageh Omaar i m sure all Somalian and all the Muslims around the world are pround of you for showing the truth of anti-islamic invaders through your Journalism. I am interested in journalism but when i see you it gives me more confident to study journalism. Finally i will ask all the muslims brother and sister, study hard and repeat the history of Muslims scientist like Ibnel hesam, al- beroni and money more.

[weekiyo]

rageh u r one of these somali people makes me proud 2 be somalian. u r my example of life and education i hope that one day i ,ll be educated open mined respectfull like u ...illah bless u xayaak alaah .

[Ahmednesrin]

there is nothing racist about this clip you ediot. listen carefully and then comment.

[mapoze]

hardworking and dedication is wat make rageh proud surely this man rise the name os somalis which died before decades