Huda al-Rasheed
Huda al-Rasheed (or al-Rashid; {{langx|ar|هدى الرشيد}}) is a Saudi Arabian broadcaster and writer. She was the first woman to present a newscast on Saudi television and was a familiar voice on BBC World Service for more than 40 years.{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-27 |archive-date=27 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427224012/https://www.albayan.ae/five-senses/culture/2019-04-21-1.3540624 |date=2019-04-21 |first=بقلم: د عبدالله |language=ar |last=المدني |title=هدى الرشيد.. «هنا لندن» بصوت امرأة سعودية |url=https://www.albayan.ae/five-senses/culture/2019-04-21-1.3540624 |website=البيان}}
Early life
Al-Rasheed was born in Unaizah, Najd, Saudi Arabia and educated at boarding schools in Lebanon and Egypt.{{cite news |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1261571/saudi-arabia |work=Arab News |title=Saudi trailblazer Huda Al-Rasheed's message to women: never give up on your dreams |date=8 March 2018 |access-date=16 March 2023 |first=Anna |last=Pukas}}
Broadcasting career
In the early 1970s she started working as an editor for Okaz, a daily newspaper in Jeddah, and broadcasting on Jeddah Radio, presenting political and arts programs.{{cite news |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/10/02/Meet-Huda-al-Rasheed-Saudi-Arabia-s-first-woman-broadcaster- |title=Meet Huda al-Rasheed: Saudi Arabia's first woman broadcaster |work=Al Arabiya News |first=Mohammed |last=Jarrah |date=2 October 2018 |access-date=26 March 2023}} In 1974 she moved from radio to television, becoming the first woman news presenter in the kingdom when she appeared on Channel One.{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2014-09-06/ty-article/.premium/forget-the-arabian-slights/0000017f-e0f9-df7c-a5ff-e2fb13be0000 |work=Haaretz |title=There's More to Saudi Arabia Than Oil and Sharia |first=Eyal Sagui |last=Bizawe |date=6 September 2014}}
Her tenure at Channel One proved brief. While in London to study English, al-Rasheed toured the studios of the BBC. Shortly after returning home, the BBC World Service offered her a position as a radio broadcaster, so she returned to England, joining BBC Arabic on 10 September 1974. She took a hiatus from the BBC starting in 1989 to complete a degree history and English literature at the University of Buckingham, and then master's degrees in media studies, linguistics and translation.
Writing
In addition to broadcasting, al-Rasheed is a novelist and short story writer. Her first publication was a collection of short stories in 1973.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MB6gphBXU0kC&pg=PA465 |page=465 |title=Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 |editor1-last=Ashour |editor1-first=Radwa|editor2-last=Ghazoul|editor2-first=Ferial J.|editor3-last=Reda-Mekdashi|editor3-first=Hasna|publisher=American University in Cairo|isbn=978-9774161469 |doi=10.5743/cairo/9789774161469.001.0001 |year=2008}} She has also published a number of novels.
Works
- 1973: {{lang|ar|Nisa' 'abr al-athir}} (Women Over the Ether; short stories)
- 1977: {{lang|ar|'Abath}} (Folly; novel)
- 1977: {{lang|ar|Ghadan sayakun al-khamis}} (Tomorrow is Thursday; novel)
- 1980: Misdemeanor (novel)
- 1993: The Divorce (novel)
- 2008: Love (novel)
- 2012: The Devil is Sometimes a Woman (novel)
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