Natasha Fatah

Natasha Fatah is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently a reporter and host for CBC News Network.

In the summer of 2010, Fatah hosted the new CBC Radio One summer program Promised Land, a series which presents stories of harrowing, exciting and often-dangerous escapes to Canada, as told by the immigrants and refugees who lived through them.[1]

She was a producer at CBC Radio One's national current affairs radio show As It Happens,[2] Toronto beat reporter for their Ontario regional weekend morning show Fresh Air, and author of the column "Minority Report" in cbc.ca's Viewpoint section.

Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan and spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia between Riyadh and Jeddah; she has also lived in Amsterdam, Montreal and Mexico City. Fatah earned a degree in political science at the University of Toronto,[2] and then earned another degree in journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.[2]

Before her assignments in Toronto, she was a television and radio reporter for CBC Windsor,[2] filing for CBE radio and CBET-TV. In 1996, she was host of News from the Muslim World on Vision TV.

From 1999 to 2000, Fatah was co-chair of the Ontario New Democratic Youth.[3] In the wake of the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Fatah called for Howard Hampton to resign his leadership of the Ontario New Democratic Party.[4] Hampton did not do so.

Her father is broadcaster, author and secular activist Tarek Fatah. Her mother, Nargis Tapal, hails from a prominent Shia Bohra family.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "CBC announces summer line-up," Inside the CBC. May 26, 2010; Fatah, Natasha. "What police state? It's all a matter of perspective," Calgary Herald. July 10, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 CBC.ca, "Analysis & Viewpoint: Natasha Fatah- Minority Report," URL accessed 24 February 2007.
  3. ↑ "Power struggle brewing in Ontario NDP: Some members critical of Hargrove, others unhappy with Hampton," Standard, St. Catharines, Ontario: September 27, 1999, pg. A.7.
  4. ↑ Mark Stevenson, "Ontario NDP says Buzz can stay," Calgary Herald, September 26, 1999, pg. A.5.
  5. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-story-is-behind-the-photo-1.816876

5. Shades of Brown by Natasha Fatah, Toronto Life Magazine http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2011/11/28/shades-of-brown/

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