Arwa Damon Biography
Arwa Damon an American journalist working as a senior international correspondent for CNN in Istanbul and she covered the Middle East from 2003 as a freelance journalist before she joined CNN. She is Das well the president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria.
Arwa Damon Age
Damon was born on 19th of September 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Damon has covered the invasion and occupation of Iraq such as the Battle of Najaf and the battle to retake Samarra in 2004. She has also covered the Iraqi elections of January 2005, the constitutional referendum vote in October 2005, and the Iraqi election of December 2005. Damon has reported on the trials and executions of Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar in January 2007. During the Syrian civil war, Damon traveled to Syria multiple times and to the Syrian refugee camps.
fter the 2012 Benghazi attack, she was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene she got slain Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’ personal diary. In 2013 she had a feature called Arwa Damon Investigates: Ivory War that followed an anti-poaching unit through Odzala National Park in the Republic of the Congo. Damon traveled to West Africa in April 2014 after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping to hunt for the terrorists on the islands of Lake Chad.
Arwa Damon Salary
Damon earns an estimated net worth range of between $100,000-$150,000
Arwa Damon Net worth
Damon has an estimated net worth range of between $500,000-$3 million
Arwa Damon Education
Damon enrolled at Robert College and she skipped a sixth grade and later graduated at the age of 16 years. She resided for a year with her aunt and uncle in Morocco and learned show jumping. She later got back to the U.S. and joined Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs and later graduated with honors in 1999 with a double major in French and Biology. She is fluent in Arabic, French, Turkish, and English.
Arwa Damon Height and Weight
Damon stands tall at a height of 1.74 meters and has an average body weight.
Arwa Damon Family
Damon was born to an American father and Syrian mother. She was raised up in Wayland, Massachusetts and she is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former Syrian Kurd prime minister of Syria known for having been executed in the August 1949 Syrian coup d’état. Her father served as a teacher and a middle school director at Robert College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Arwa Damon Husband
Damon information about her love life are publicly unavailable. This section will be updated as soon as this information is available
Arwa Damon Tattoos
Damon has tattoos under her rolled-up sleeves since she began her non-profit organization. Her tattoos are Moroccan patterns of Henna.
Arwa Damon Charity
INARA ( the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance ) is a humanitarian aid, a non-profit organization co-founded by Damon in 2015. It was founded in 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon. INARA provides medical services for children who have been wounded in war zones. It provides rehabilitation treatment for its beneficiaries. The organization mainly focuses on refugee children from Syria. Since August 2108 the organization has provided treatment for over 150 refugee children.