Nada Bashir is an Emmy award-winning International Correspondent based at CNN’s London bureau. From reporting on the war in Gaza, to devastating natural disasters, Bashir has delivered distinctive coverage of some of the most consequential stories impacting our world, with a particular focus on the Middle East and Europe.

Most recently, Bashir has played a pivotal role in CNN’s coverage of the war in Gaza, collaborating with CNN’s teams inside the besieged enclave and delivering extensive on-the-ground reporting from Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories. In the occupied West Bank, she has reported widely on the surge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli Settlers, and the increasing number of Palestinian communities being forced to flee their homes as a result.

Over the course of the war in Gaza, Bashir has also reported on the broader regional fallout from locations across the Middle East. In 2024, Bashir gained access to a field hospital established off the coast of North Sinai, near the Gaza-Egypt border, where she interviewed wounded Palestinian patients recently evacuated from the Gaza Strip. She also reported from Cairo on ceasefire negotiations between representatives from both Israel and Hamas. From Lebanon, Bashir has reported on the deadly tensions growing between Israel and Hezbollah along the country’s southern border, and also travelled to Jordan, where she covered mass anti-war protests taking place in the country’s capital, Amman.

Ahead of the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Nada was deployed to Morocco to report on the aftermath of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake which killed nearly 3,000 people. Months prior, she spent five weeks in Turkey reporting on the aftermath of a catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria, leaving widespread destruction in its wake, and more than 50,000 people dead.

As a key regional power broker, Bashir’s work in Turkey has also focused on the country’s broader political affairs. In 2023, she covered Turkey’s fiercely contested presidential election, and previously reported on the Turkish government’s efforts to mediate peace agreements between Russia and Ukraine.

In her earlier work as a Producer, Bashir played a key role in CNN’s coverage of the war in Yemen, travelling to the frontlines of Marib in 2021.
She also worked with CNN’s Chief International Investigative Correspondent Nima Elbagir to shed light on the dire humanitarian crisis gripping Yemen, gaining an Emmy nomination for the team’s investigation into the country’s hunger crisis.

In 2024, Bashir won an Emmy award in the ‘Outstanding Emerging Journalist’ category and was part of the CNN team that won an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Breaking News Coverage’ for reporting on the Israel-Hamas war. She was also named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. In 2023, she won an Emmy award as part of CNN’s coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and was also shortlisted for an AIB award in recognition of CNN’s coverage of anti-regime protests in Iran.

Prior to joining CNN, Bashir graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Politics and East European Studies from University College London, where she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the university’s video news outlet, PiTV. She then went on to graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a master’s degree in Global Politics.

Bashir is a British-Arab Journalist of Libyan descent and was born and raised in the United Kingdom.