Laila Al-Arian is a Washington, D.C. based journalist and the executive producer of FAULT LINES, an award-winning current affairs program on Al Jazeera English. She has produced documentaries on subjects ranging from the Trump administration’s Muslim ban to the impact of the heroin epidemic on children, and an investigation into factory conditions producing garments for Walmart and Gap in Bangladesh. For her work, she has been honored with two News and Documentary Emmys, a Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award in journalism, Overseas Press Club Award, National Headliner Award, and has been nominated for eight News and Documentary Emmys.
Prior to joining FAULT LINES, Laila worked for Al Jazeera English for four years, covering everything from Guantanamo Bay’s youngest detainee to the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in the U.S. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University and an M.S. from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Independent, and other publications, and she is co-author of the book Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians.
Laila will be facilitating the Fact-Checking In The Age Of Misinformation workshop and taking meetings for DX Access.
