![]() In December 2012, it was announced that Hakim would join the BBC. īeginning in 2011, Hakim co-hosted Dateline with fellow video journalist Mark Davis, the two taking it in turns to present the programme in approximately six-week blocks, while the other was away on assignment. She was awarded the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for best Australian Television News Coverage in 2009, and has also been a finalist for the Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award. Hakim returned to Kabul for her first Dateline report in 2008, and from then reported from across the world for Dateline and SBS World News Australia. īesides English, Hakim is fluent in Persian, Dari, Hindi, Urdu, and Pashto, and as of 2022 was learning Mandarin. She then went on to study a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism via distance education at Monash University from 2007 to 2009, in addition to a cadetship at the Special Broadcasting Service. ![]() In 2005, Hakim received a Diploma in Journalism at Macleay College, Sydney. Hakim went on to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media from 2002 to 2004 at Macquarie University, where she was also a board member of the Macquarie University Union. She also attended Parramatta West Public School. Hakim attended Macarthur Girls High School in Parramatta, Sydney, where she played the violin and became a sports captain and prefect. After two years in Pakistan, the family settled in Australia as migrants in 1986, when she was three years old. The family travelled on horseback overland to Pakistan with the help of people smugglers. ![]() Her family fled the country during the Soviet–Afghan War when she was six months old. Hakim was born on 26 June 1983 in Kabul, Afghanistan. ![]() She started her career at SBS Television, moving to BBC TV in 2012. After her family left Afghanistan and settled in Australia in 1986, she grew up in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta and went on to study journalism. She is currently one of the chief presenters at BBC News broadcasting in English in the UK and globally. Yalda Hakim (born 26 June 1983) is an Australian broadcast journalist, news presenter, and documentary maker. ![]()
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