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Her name sounds Albanian. Anybody know why?Ferick 15:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe she got married. --VKokielov 02:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Never mind. I'm stupid. --VKokielov 17:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Hala and Basha are highly prevalent names among people with muslim and/or middle eastern, muslim balkan ancestry. --88.224.142.184 22:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Gorani is almost certainly a muslim: aside from her aknowleged syrian ancestry, she covered the Hajj for CNN, and only muslims are allowed to enter Mecca. But when I try to put that in the main article it is reverted.

Yes she is Syrian descendant, more particularly from Aleppo. Her Arabic is not fluent. I heard this in an radio interview with her last week, she was here in Dubai in a mission to cover the DIFF (Dubai International Film Festival)

[edit] Religion

Anyone know what her religion is? --Adriaan90 14:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

She covered the hajj for CNN, and only muslims can enter Mecca. That says it all.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Andres68 (talk • contribs)

She could have only said that she was a muslim just to enter. That doesn't really prove that she is muslim. Also, you can cover the hajj without ever leaving the CNN office in London, or whatever. I see your point, but it's not sufficient evidence. --Adriaan90 04:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

She covered the hajj from Saudi Arabia; here's the link: http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/08/cst.13.html However, I agree that she has been reluctant to discuss her faith. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andres68 (talk • contribs)

God gracious, wouldn't you be? --VKokielov 02:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnic group Gorani

There is a small middle eastern ethnic group named Gorani, linguistically related to Kurds. They belong to a little known religion which only superficially resembles Islam, and the adherents of that religion tend to keep a low profile about it. Is the resemblance of Hala's surname to the ethnic group's name just a coincidence, can anyone find that out? (There is another small ethnic group with the same name in southern Kosovo whose dialect is related to Serbian, but since she is of middle eastern origin, she probably has nothing to do with them.)

In the interview in Asharq Al-Awsat (in the references section), Gorani mentions that she was born to parents originally from Aleppo, Syria. As far as I know, very few, or even no, Kurds lived in that area. Additionally, Gorani has said in the interview, and I quote, "my roots are 100% Syrian." —Anas ^talk? 22:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

OK. Anyway, I like her merrily calm style and her diction.

[edit] Hala

Hala هالة is a name in Arabic means pretty much, glow or halo, very common, and has nothing to do with any religion. Gorani, is a referenece for descendents [re-spell I'm sleepy] for a tribe from Iraq, they're Arab, but they could be muslim, or christians, still, you need to find out if her mother is christian, it's very common in Syria and Lebannon, for kids of muslim-christo marriage to choose one of them and actually practice it, the surname is always the father's though. hope this helps. [Syrian Dude] ~tilde? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.240.47.167 (talk) 04:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

OK. Don't forget to sign your posts using four tildes (~~~~). :-) —Anas ^talk? 10:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)