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Dateline presenter and video journalist Yalda Hakim came to Australia after her father smuggled his young family out of Afghanistan on horseback to escape the Soviet invasion.
It was 1983 and Yalda was just six-months-old. The emotional return to Yalda’s Kabul was the subject of her first report for Dateline in 2008.
Since then, she’s reported from across the world for Dateline and SBS’s World News Australia, winning the United Nations Media Peace Prize for best Australian Television News Coverage in 2009. She’s also been a finalist for the Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award.
Yalda’s 2010 profile of Iran’s Maestro, anti-government campaigner Mohammad Shajarian, has become one of the most watched stories on the Dateline website.
The interview was conducted in Farsi, which is one of the six languages Yalda can speak, along with Urdu, Hindi, Dari and Pashto... she's also currently trying to master Mandarin.
As well as presenting alongside fellow video journalist Mark Davis, Yalda continues to report for Dateline from around the world.
Click to follow Yalda on facebook or twitter...
For further publicity information ONLY, contact SBS publicist Sarah Burke on 02 9430 3319 or sarah.burke@sbs.com.au
