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Dr.Halla Diyab

is an award winning screen-writer, producer, TV commentator, broadcaster, columnist, counter-terrorism analyst and a published author. She holds a PhD from the University of Leicester, UK. She carried out research in New Orleans, USA while working on her PhD, thesis. She holds an PGDip in post-colonial and world literature, and an MA in Gender and Women Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.

She has written a number of scripts for TV dramas countering Islamic extremism and international terrorism, which were aired across the Middle East and Europe, resulting in her being awarded the Best Syrian Drama Script Award 2010 and the Artists Achievement Award 2011. As a highly successful drama writer, she was dubbed “one of the most influential women in Syria” in 2011. She also produces sports documentary films and cross cultural television programs for UK and international channels.

She is also a columnist at Al-Arabiya English, writing on Syria, Islam and Middle East political affairs, a contributor to the Arab News, and an analyst at the Jamestown Foundation. She wrote extensively on female jihadim and modern evolution of jihadist movements.

She is a regular commentator in the British and international media and has recently appeared on Channel 4 News, BBC Newsnight, BBC This Week, CNN, Sky News, Channel 5 News, ITV Central, al-Jazeera English and BBC Radio 4, to name a few. She is a public speaker who spoke at the House of Commons, the Spectator Debate, Uniting for Peace and London’s Frontline Club.

She has worked in Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria and is an expert on the Middle East, current affairs, jihadism, counter-terrorism and Islamic culture.

  • "Her own production company produces her weekly show, From London, she has written five dramas that have been aired in the Middle East"
    The Sunday Times
  • "It’s my duty as a writer to highlight the problems we have as Muslims,” she says, “I believe in the power of drama to push for social reform"
    The National
  • "Halla, became the golden girl of the Middle East’s media and drew comparisons with the Daybreak host after presenting a range of programmes"
    The Times

MY SERVICES

List of some of the channels and press that Dr.Halla Diyab featured in

Awards

TELEVISION AWARDS

2010 | Best Syrian Drama Script Award – Winner

2010 | Jordan Award – Winner

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS „„

2011 | Artist’s Achievement Award, presented by Mahmoud Abbas – Winner „„

2016 | Damascus Days of Artistic Innovation’s Award – Winner

ACADEMIC AWARDS „„

2006 | Winner of Best Research Presentation Award – Festival of Postgraduate Research at the University of Leicester „„

2006 | Winner of William Ruddick Scholarship Award „

Winner of UN Award for Baccalaureate Academic Excellence

TELEVISION AWARDS

2010 | Best Script Adonia Award – Nominated

LISTING / PROFILING RECOGNITIONS

2011 | Iron Women List (was listed as one of the most influential women in Syria), Aliqtisadi Magazine „

2011 | Profiled in the “Women Like Us” exhibition that celebrated inspirational Muslim women in the UK

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS

2011 | Short Films Award (Hyatt Medical Centre) – Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha – Nominated „

2011 | “Ma Malakat Aymankum” TV series, and “Hur Al Alain” TV series featured in the 17th Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina

Media Coverage

  • "This is [FITNAH] an exciting new project from a talented young writer. It is of fundamental importance that we in the West engage and seek to understand the complexities and dynamics within Islam"
    David Miliband | UK Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  • "Halla leads an exciting innovative, artistic and dynamic production company. It was a pleasure to work on her documentary featuring my fasting in Ramadan with the Leicester Muslim community"
    Jon Ashworth | MP for Leicester South

Gallery

  • "Dr. Halla Diyab provided outstanding service during her assignment with Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA).  Her content for the script of Wadi Hanifa was original and innovative. Her linguistic skills and sound judgment matched the beauty of Wadi Hanifa.  Her work was coupled with on-time excellence and delivery. The net result is that we definitely would work with her again and recommend her to any organization"
    Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA)
  • "This collection of articles on females in jihad by Halla Diyab touches on a hugely important topic, therefore, and one that clearly requires further study. In these articles, Diyab focuses on a number of women - both from the MENA region and beyond - who joined IS and other militant organizations, and sketches their stories. She depicts their routes to radicalization, as well as their experiences in the Caliphate, and in some instances their fate once the Caliphate has fallen"
    Alison Pargeter | A Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the School of Security Studies, King’s College London

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