TALK management recommends Rageh Omaar as an After Dinner Speaker, Keynote Conference Speaker, Inspirational Speaker, Celebrity Speaker, Conference Facilitator and Awards Host .


Combined with his role for Al Jazeera where he presents a daily documentary strand called `Witness`, Rageh Omaar has also worked on a number of special programmes for television and radio: Dead Sea Scrolls for BBC4 which aired on 5th December 2006; Welcome To Tehran (BBC4); and The Abolition of Slavery for BBC2 2007.

Rageh Omaar was educated at Cheltenham Boys College and later Oxford University where he gained a BA Honours in Modern History. His journalistic career began in 1990 as a trainee at The Voice newspaper in Brixton before moving to City Limits Magazine. He then freelanced as a foreign correspondent in Ethiopia, much of his work being broadcast by the BBC World Service. He produced for Focus on Africa and for the World Service. Rageh studied Arabic at the University of Jordan, and went on to be appointed Amman Correspondent, before becoming the BBC’s Developing World Correspondent from 1998 covering stories ranging from drought in Ethiopia to devastating floods in Mozambique. He rose to prominence as the BBC’s man in Baghdad; his reports from the beleaguered Iraq capital became a regular feature on news bulletins in the UK and around the world.

His first book Revolution Day drew from the diaries he kept while in Iraq. Rageh’s latest book Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain was published in June 2006.

Rageh gave the 2006 Worldview Address at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August and he recently gave a speech for Malaria Awareness Week and, in December, on Internationalsim In Education. He has previously hosted the EMMA Awards and has given speeches with Q&A for AXA. Rageh recently hosted the BBC Grierson Awards. He has spoken for EDS, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and given a keynote speech for ABTA in Florida.

“….illuminating, and a breath of fresh air, refreshing to hear a speaker with such genuine enthusiasm for his subject.” - AXA

“….engaging, charming and perfectly pitched.” - Factors and Discounters Association



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