Yalda Hakim Biography
Yalda Hakim is an Australian television journalist, news presenter, and documentary maker who is presently a presenter and reporter for BBC World News. She started working at the station in December of 2012.
Yalda Hakim Age/Birthday
Hakim was born on 25 June 1983 in Kabul, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. She is 38 years old as of 2021 and celebrates her birthday on the 25th of June every year.
Yalda Hakim Height
Hakim has not revealed any information about her height, weight, or other physical measurements. We’re keeping an eye on her, and we’ll update this as soon as any information becomes available.
Yalda Hakim Family
Hakim’s family fled the country when she was six months old during the Soviet-Afghan War. With the assistance of people smugglers, the family traveled overland on horseback to Pakistan. After two years in Pakistan, her family immigrated to Australia in 1986, when she was three years old.
Her father was an architect in Czechoslovakia, while her mother was a nurse. She grew raised in the same house as her older brother and sister. She hasn’t mentioned her parents or siblings. The data is being reviewed and will be updated soon.
Yalda Hakim Husband
Hakim is a married woman, married to her husband Abed Rashid a former Ranks of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) sergeant, and currently is an avionic engineer. They are blessed with a son.
Yalda Hakim Education
Hakim was a violinist and a sports captain and prefect at Macarthur Girls High School in Parramatta, Sydney. She went to Parramatta West Public School as well. Later, she moved on to Macquarie University to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Media from 2002 to 2004.
Hakim earned a Diploma in Journalism from Macleay College in Sydney in 2005, and a journalism degree from Monash University via internet education in 2007.
Yalda Hakim Career
Hakim joined BBC World News as a presenter and reporter in December 2012. She made her on-screen debut in March 2013, presenting Iraq: Ten Years On, a special three-part program on Our World.
Hakim was the host of SBS Dateline in Australia before joining BBC World News. She has a plethora of journalistic experience across the world, from a headline-making investigation in Afghanistan’s Kandahar region to her reporting from Libya during the Arab Spring.
Hakim spent the last four years reporting for SBS’s Dateline show, covering topics from the Middle East, the United States, Africa, and Europe. She was the first western journalist to visit one of the villages in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, where US soldier Staff Sgt Robert Bales is accused of shooting and killing Afghan civilians in March 2012.
“Anatomy of a Massacre,” a report by Hakim, tracked the movements of the rogue soldier to give new insight on the events of that night. It created headlines all around the world, especially in the United States, where it received considerable coverage on all of the major news networks.
Other career highlights include interviewing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and accompanying him to Pakistan for discussions on regional peace with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She was also on the ground in Libya as people battled for independence from Gaddafi’s reign, and she covered the ensuing refugee crisis in Tunisia as many left the violence.
Yalda Hakim Net Worth
Hakim’s net worth is believed to be $1.5 million. Her yearly pay, on the other hand, is presently being reviewed and will be revised soon.
