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Mishal Husain is a <a href="/biography/mishal-husain">news anchor</a> working for BBC, who is presently seen in programs such as BBC Weekend News and BBC World News. Previously, she has appeared in other news programs in BBC including BBC Breakfast and HardTalk and later, she will be appearing in BBC Radio 4.

Born to Pakistani parents in Northampton, England, she spent her childhood in United Arab Emirates where she moved along with her family at the mere age of two. During her stay in UAE, she attended British School in Abu Dhabi. However, Mishal also spent a brief period with her family in Saudi Arabia. However, Mishal came back to UK in order to complete her education in an institution called Cobham Hall situated at Cobham in Kent, England.

Her education was furthered when she attained a Master’s Degree in International and Comparative Law from European University Institute in Florence, Italy before studying law at New Hall in Cambridge. As far as her family is concerned, her father was a practicing doctor when the family stayed in United Arab Emirates and studied at Army Burn Hall College, located in Abbottabad. Husain’s grandfather had served as an army officer during the era of undivided Pakistan in the post of Private Military Secretary.

Husain gained her first experience of journalism at the age of 18, spending three months as a city reporter in Islamabad, Pakistan, at the English-language newspaper The News. Then, while at university, she did several stints at the BBC as work experience.

Her first job was at Bloomberg Television in London from 1996, where she was a producer and sometime presenter. Two years later, in 1998, she joined the BBC as a junior producer in the newsroom and for the News 24 channel, and then in the Economics and Business Unit. Within a few months she moved in front of the camera and has since worked in a variety of roles: on the daily Breakfast programme, on Asia Business Report (based in Singapore), and as a presenter of business news on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. From September 2002 she was the corporation's Washington correspondent, serving as the main news anchor through the buildup to the invasion of Iraq and during the war.

She has interviewed many high-profile figures including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz">Paul Wolfowitz</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(government_official)">Deputy</a> US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(government_official)">Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(government_official)">Richard Armitage</a>, Pentagon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle">adviser</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle">Richard Perle</a>, Rwanda's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame">Paul Kagame</a> and Zimbabwe's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerson_Mnangagwa">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerson_Mnangagwa">Emmerson Mnangagwa</a>.

In 2011, Husain hosted Impanct on BBC World News, but in spring and summer 2011 she was engaged on making a documentary on the Arab Spring, for airing in the autumn of 2011. She presents the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. On 8 May 2010, she published an autobiographical essay in The Independent based on a nostalgia trip to the UAE. Husain is also a relief presenter of the BBC News at Six  and BBC News at Ten . She has occasionally presented Newsnight on BBC Two.

On 2 December 2011, it was announced that Husain would be part of the BBC's Olympic Presenting team. On 7 November 2013, it was announced that Husain would be part of the BBCs Commonwealth Games Presenting team. On 17 March 2013 she presented the last News at Ten to be broadcast from BBC Television Centre.

On 16 July 2013, the BBC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hall,_Baron_Hall_of_Birkenhead">Director-General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hall,_Baron_Hall_of_Birkenhead">Lord</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hall,_Baron_Hall_of_Birkenhead">Hall</a> announced that Husain was to become a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today programme in the autumn. She continues to present the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One and on occasions on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

Husain presented her first edition of Today on 7 October 2013, when her co-presenter was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys">John Humphrys</a>. Husain won the Broadcaster of the Year Award at the London Press Club Awards in 2015.

On 27 November 2017, she recorded an interview on behalf of all journalists with the newly engaged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex">Prince</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex">Harry</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex">Megan Markle</a>. It was first aired at 6pm.

Mishal Husain joined the Today presenting team in October 2013.

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In her personal life, Mishal tied the knot with Meekal Hashmi in the month of July 2003 and presently is a mother of three sons with the eldest one born in 2004 followed by twins in 2006. Besides the specifications of her career which have been mentioned above, there are a lot of other activities in which she has involved herself until now. For instance, she is one of the judges for the Media Awards of Amnesty International, appeared on a show called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi">Gandhi</a> presented by BBC in 2012 and anchored the coverage of Summer Olympics in BBC in the year 2012.

Apparently, Husain is not the only literate member of her family; her father is a college graduated that attended Army Burn College which is based in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Furthermore, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Shahid_Hamid">Syed Shahid Hamid</a>, her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Shahid_Hamid">grandfather</a>, served his nation’s army as a two-star general. In addition to that, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Shahid_Hamid">Shahid</a> had also served in the army of Britain during World War II. At age 2, Husain’s family shifted to the United Arab Emirates where her father offered his serves as a doctor to the residents.

Turning from that, Husain was recently involved in an interview at BBC that grew greatly controversial. As the interviewer, Husain was said to have conducted an embarrassingly bashing interview on the issue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit">Brexit</a> as she interviewed Finbarr Dowling, Siemens director. Dowling fervently refused to debate on the matter relating to the impact of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit">Brexit</a> on the industry.

However, despite Dowling’s firm refusal to engage in a debate relating to the adversity of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit">Brexit</a> on the industry, Mishal spent significant time during the interview making attempts of luring Dowling to comment on the issue. In fact, after going through the interview transcript, one would agree that most of the interviewing time entailed desperate attempts by the presenter to trap the Siemens director into making controversial claims.

Cleary, Husain tried to drive the point that there was a disparity in perception on the EU between the Hull management and the workforce. However, being as savvy as he was, Mr. Dowling rationally expressed that democracy allows all that. Feeling unsatisfied, Mishal then posed an ill-researched question regarding the effect on exports only for Dowling to enlighten her that the turbines were only for England.

At the end, Husain again suggested that Siemens would not consider investing any more in Britain. But the Siemens director responded that if more train rolling stock orders came their way, Siemens would seize the opportunity by building new factories. Such an interview marked by a presenter with a formed mind was an embarrassment to Husain and her editors as well as the BBC itself.

Apart from Radio presenting, Mishal has cast in films as well including the Star Spell. In the series, Husain played as the word pronouncer and was a replacement to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hossain">Nina Hossain</a>. In the second series, Mishal still maintained that same role. In 2010, Husain made the cut on BBC’s Celebrity Mastermind. The Narnia books were Mishal’s specialized subject. As mentioned previously, Husain has as well served as an Amnesty International Media Awards judge. In 2012, she was gain associated with BBC as she cast in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi">Gandhi</a> in 2012.

Apart from her presenting and acting careers, Husain is reportedly a charity Mosaic <a href="/biography/mishal-husain">ambassador</a>. Generally speaking, Mosaic capitalizes on providing aid to young people, particularly those hailing from deprived societies, in the realization of their potential and talents. As a result, Husain, during the British Muslim Awards, received the Services to Media award.

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