About Jane Arraf
Born 2000. Jane Arraf is a Canadian journalist and correspondent.
Jane Arraf is a Palestinian-Canadian journalist. Until August 2023, she served as the Baghdad bureau chief of The New York Times. She previously worked for the Christian Science Monitor and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent.
Education Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. agency where she was a correspondent in Montreal, Canada, an editor in New York and Washington, and a reporter/producer for Reuters Financial Television (RFTV) in Washington. She covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the United States Department of the Treasury. From 1990 to 1993, Arraf was Reuters Bureau Chief in Jordan. She has covered Iraq since 1991.
Arraf joined CNN in 1998 as Baghdad Bureau Chief. After the Gulf War, she was the only Western correspondent in Iraq for several years.
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Who is Jane Arraf?
Palestinian-Canadian journalist
When was Jane Arraf born?
Jane Arraf was born in 2000.
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Jane Arraf is a journalist and correspondent.
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Jane Arraf is Canadian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jane Arraf. https://biography.guide/jane-arraf/
MLA: "Jane Arraf." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/jane-arraf/.
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