Randa Abd Al-Aziz

Randa Abd Al-Aziz (; born c. 1996) is an Iraqi journalist and news anchor. She is the first Afro-Iraqi to feature on the country's state media channels, and since September 2021 has co-hosted the news for Al Iraqiya.

Early life Al-Aziz grew up in a middle-class family in Baghdad; her father was a businessman while her mother owned a stationery shop. Al-Aziz went on to obtain a degree in Agricultural Economics and work for an import distribution business prior to her becoming a journalist.

Journalism career Al-Aziz was scouted as a news anchor while at a café in Baghdad where she was overheard reading from a pamphlet in Classical Arabic, the language used by news anchors in Iraq. After being scouted, she trained for 6 months, including lessons on voice and language, and studies into Iraqi national and local politics. Al-Aziz's hiring was part of an effort by the Iraqi Media Network's president, Nabil Jasim, to make the organisation be more reflective of Iraqi society; there are an estimated 1.5 million Afro-Iraqis in the country.

Al-Aziz has named the French-Lebanese journalist Randa Habib and the Algerian journalist Khadija Benguenna as among her inspirations, in addition to Radio Monte Carlo and the BBC.