Roula Khalaf

Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times,^[1] and used to be Assistant Editor and Foreign Editor.^[2]

Career

In addition to her Deputy Editor responsibilities, she writes and comments regularly on world affairs, Middle East politics and business.^[3] She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent, Middle East Editor and most recently as Foreign Editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.^[4]

Awards

In 2009, Khalaf won “The Peace Through Media Award” of the International Media Awards “in recognition of her high standards of reporting and the quality of her news analysis.^[5] In 2011, she was short-listed for the Foreign Reporter of the Year Category of the Press Awards^[6] In 2012, she was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards for her article 'The Muslim Sisterhood.'^[7] In 2013, she won, with her Financial Times colleagues Abigail Fielding-Smith, Camilla Hall and Simeon Kerr, the Foreign Press Association media award Print and Web Feature Story of the Year for “Qatar: From Emirate to Empire.”^[8]

In film

Khalaf is quoted in Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf of Wall Street, “The press onslaught had started in 1991, when an insolent reporter from Forbes magazine, Roula Khalaf, coined me as a twisted version of Robin Hood, who robs from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers. She deserved an A for cleverness, of course.”.^[9] She is fictionalized as Aliyah Farran (played by Sandra Nelson) in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 movie, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film).^[10]

Education

Khalaf is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.^[11]

References

External links

• Financial Times Columnists
• C-SPAN Interview of Roula Khalaf July 2009