About

 

Aida Alami is a freelance journalist based in Casablanca who has had her works published in several publications: Foreign Policy, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg and Global Post among others. She reports on human rights issues, religion, the economy, politics, education and even art.

She grew up in Marrakech in Morocco and moved to New York City at the age of 18. She got her BA in Media Studies from Hunter College in 2006 and her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in 2009.

She is passionate about human rights coverage and traveling. A native French and Arabic speaker, she is also fluent in English.

While attending Columbia University, Aida got the chance to do extensive beat reporting, and got trained not only in writing but also in doing multimedia reporting, radio, and photography. She covered trials and crimes in Brooklyn and also wrote several features. Her work is available in the portfolio section of the site.

After graduating from Hunter in 2006, Aida worked for a year for the abc news show, Good Morning America. After a year at abc news, in early 2008, she decided to dedicate a few months to her real passion, traveling, and spent several months exploring the world.

During her time at Hunter, Aida worked with non-profit organizations on campus, such as the American Cancer Society to organize the annual Relay for Life, and fought on behalf of Hunter with NYPIRG against tuition hikes.

An aspiring journalist, Aida took essential initiatives and created a student newspaper, “The WORD Print,” that followed the tradition of a community newspaper, giving students who were eager to learn about journalism an opportunity to be involved in a serious, news-oriented publication. In college, she also interned for the abc evening news in New York City in 2006.

To contact please email Aida at aidaalami@gmail.com

 

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