Zubeida Malik is a Journalist, Broadcaster, and Radio Presenter who worked for the BBC for over 20 years, including 18 years on the BBC's Flagship News programme Radio Four Today. Malik has also presented BBC's Radio 4 Pick of the Week and One to One and made many documentaries for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.
On the Today programme, she reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Northern Ireland, Israel, Gaza. Her reportage included foreign reporting and stories in the UK. She covered the murder of Damilola Taylor[1] extensively and reported on several high-profile Terrorism trials. Malik has been reporting on Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda since the 1990s and was one of the first journalists to look into extremist groups holding secret military training camps and encouraging young men to become jihadis.
Malik has interviewed key figures for the BBC, including Kofi Annan,[2] President Musharraf, Tony Blair, Prince Saud Al Faisal, Desmond Tutu, the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Yassin and a rare interview with Akbar Etemad[3] " the father of Irans nuclear programme.