Jamela alindogan biography of rory

Fear is not something you would associate with Jamela Alindogan, the award-winning correspondent of Al Jazeera English.

Just look at her body of work, and you’ll get an idea of how courageous she is as a journalist.

Alindogan, now 35, has covered various conflict stories in Southeast Asia since joining the Qatari-funded news agency more than a decade ago.

From covering the tension-filled elections in Indonesia and Malaysia to the violent protests in Vietnam and Cambodia, Alindogan’s assignments have also taken her to some of the most dangerous places in the southern part of the Philippines, like Zamboanga, where she was the first international journalist to cover the bloody siege between the government and Muslim rebels in 2013, and Marawi, where she, for much of 2017, covered the crisis there.

Alindogan, who was among our media winners for 2017, described her reporting in Marawi as “one of the most cha