Nadia Bilbassy-Charters is the Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for Al Arabiya TV based in Washington DC. Ms. Bilbassy covers the White House and the State Department for the Dubai based television channel. Prior to moving to Washington, she was embedded with the 101st Marines Divison in Kuwait on the push to Baghdad in March 2003. From 1997 to 2003, Bilbassy was the Bureau Chief for MBC TV, Middle East Broadcasting Centre based in Nairobi, Kenya. She covered most of Africa’s conflicts. She has traveled extensively in southern Sudan with the SPLA, The Sudan People’s Liberation Army. She reported regularly from war torn areas like the DRC, Rwanda, and Burundi. She has been in and out of Mogadishu during her six year tenure in Africa. Ms. Bilbassy was based in Sri Lanka between 1990-1994, covering the country’s civil war for The Independent and later for IPS. She started her career as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse in 1987, where she covered the first Palestinian Intifada in the West Bank and Gaza. Ms. Bilbassy has a B.A. in humanities from Bradford University, UK and a master's degree in journalism from City University in London.