Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar
Broadcaster
Rageh Omaar rose to prominence as the BBC’s man in Baghdad. His reports from the beleaguered Iraq capital became a regular feature on news bulletins in the UK and around the world.
His latest book Only Half of Me deals with the tensions between these two sides of his identity. He used to be a BBC world affairs correspondent, where he made his name reporting from Iraq. In September 2006, he moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English, where he presented the nightly weekday documentary series Witness until January 2010. The Rageh Omaar Report, first aired February 2010, is a new one-hour, monthly investigative documentaries in which Rageh Omaar reports on the world's most important current affairs stories.
Born in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Rageh is the son of a wealthy businessman from the northwestern Somaliland region of Somalia. Rageh moved to Britain when he was two and was educated at two independent schools: the Dragon School in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Cheltenham College in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before studying Modern History at New College at the University of Oxford.
He began his journalistic career as a trainee for The Voice newspaper. 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 having been appointed the BBC's Africa correspondent.
Omaar covered the Iraq invasion for the weekday BBC news bulletins and BBC News. Many of his broadcasts were syndicated across the United States, where the Washington Post labeled him the Scud Stud.
He has written a book about his time as the BBC's Iraq correspondent called Revolution Day. The book deals with the effects of the Saddam Hussein regime, UN sanctions and of the war on Iraqi civilians.
In 2003, Omaar was the recipient of an Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy award for the best TV journalist.
Omaar is now a Middle Eastern correspondent for the London Division of Al Jazeera English, and hosts his own monthly investigative documentaries called The Rageh Omaar Report.
In 2000, Omaar married Georgiana Rose "Nina" Montgomery-Cuninghame, the daughter of Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill. The couple live in Chiswick, west London with their three children.
Rageh Omaar maintains close contact with his family in Somalia, is an activist for the Somali community, and regularly attends its lectures and events.
Rageh recently entertained AON Insurance with a speech and Q&A, being described as ‘illuminating, and a breath of fresh air’ ‘refreshing to hear a speaker with such genuine enthusiasm for his subject’.
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