"From Woman or Journalist to Woman and Journalist.The revolution that makes me sleep better at night." Alia Ibrahim is a co-founder and CEO of Daraj.com, an independent digital media platform that was launched in November 2017.
Before that Ibrahim was a Senior Correspondent at Al-Arabiya News Channel. Since 2015, Ibrahim she produced and directed episodes for Special Mission, a prime-time investigative reporting show. Ibrahim joined Al-Arabiya in 2008 as a senior roving correspondent.
Ibrahim’s opinion and news stories appear in a number of publications including Al-Hayat newspaper, Al-Arabiya net, and until 2011 The Washington Post where she had been a contributing reporter since 2005.
She started her career in 1996 as a general news reporter at The Daily Star in Beirut. She became managing editor of the newspaper in 2004.
Since 2016, she has been an instructor of Journalism at the Lebanese American University.
She is a mother of two girls Yasma 18, and Mia17. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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