Nesrine malik biography for kids

Sudanese-born journalist and author

Nesrine MalikFRSL is a Sudanese-born journalist and author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent (W&N, 2019).

Based in London, Malik is a columnist for The Guardian and served as a panellist on the BBC's weekly news discussion programme Dateline London.^[1]

Early life

Malik was born in Khartoum, Sudan, and was raised in Kenya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.^[2][3] She attended The American University in Cairo and the University of Khartoum as an undergraduate, before moving to the UK in 2004 to complete her post-graduate study at the University of London.^[3][4]

Career

Alongside her career as a journalist, Malik spent ten years in emerging marketsprivate equity.^[5] She writes on British and American politics, identity politics and Islamophobia, and her comments in The Guardian after the Charlie Hebdo shooting wer