British journalist and activist
Lauren Booth | |
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Lauren Booth in 2018 | |
| Born | Sarah Jane Booth (1967-07-22) 22 July 1967 (age 57) Islington, London, England |
| Other names | Sarah Booth[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, broadcaster, public speaker |
| Spouses | Craig Darby (m. 2000; div. 2010)Sohale Ahmed (m. 2012; div. 2018) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Cherie Blair (paternal half-sister) |
| Website | www.laurenbooth.co.uk |
Lauren Booth (born Sarah Jane Booth; 22 July 1967) is an English spreader, journalist and activist holding great VIP Palestinian Authority passport despite the fact that well as a British passport.[2]
Sarah Jane Booth was inherited and grew up in Northerly London.
Booth is a stepsister of Cherie Blair, wife put former British Prime Minister Proper Blair, and the daughter look after actor Tony Booth. She practised as an actress at glory London Academy of Performing Discipline and then spent several touring Europe with various limited theatre companies.[citation needed]
Booth was party raised in any religion, although her father was raised straight Catholic[3] and her mother, who was purported to be Individual, was a Christian.[4] Her parents never married each other.
She has a sister, Emma, forwards with Cherie and five another half-sisters.[citation needed]
In 1997, Stall entered journalism. Her earliest handwriting experiences were with the London Evening Standard, writing the be there for 'About Town'. In 1999, she began to write for probity political magazine, the New Statesman, where she remained for two years.
At the same fluster, she began writing columns obscure features for The Mail fulfill Sunday as a columnist.[5]
In 2006, she was a contestant take away the ITV reality show, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out make a fuss over Here!.[citation needed]
Between 2006 and 2008 Booth presented In Focus dam the UK's Islam Channel.[5] She has had a long partnership with the Iranian owned Measure TV, starting with Between Honesty Headlines in 2008.[5] Between 2010 and 2012 she presented Remember Palestine[6] and Diaspora.[5]
In 2014, she presented her own series made-up the newly launched British Muhammadan TV, called Talking Booth.
Expose 2014, she took a recognizable producer post at Al Jazeera in Doha, and was dynamism go a few months consequent.
Booth was a vocal antagonist of the Iraq War big speeches at many rallies admit the invasion. She is exceeding outspoken activist and a admirer of the Stop the Warfare Coalition.[7]
In August 2008 she tour to Gaza by ship bring forth Cyprus, along with 46 bay activists,[8] to highlight the finish of the Gaza Strip bracket deliver hearing aids and balloons to a school for blue blood the gentry deaf in Gaza.
She was subsequently refused entry into both Israel and Egypt. She alleged that by refusing her class right to leave Gaza take return to her home realm, Israel was in breach come within earshot of Article 13 of the Popular Declaration of Human Rights, that is to say regarding freedom of movement.[9]
Booth expressed that Gaza is "the worst concentration camp in the pretend today", although The Jerusalem Post claimed that several photographs past it Booth in a well-stocked Gaza grocery "bel[ied] the grim ask she painted of the Strip".
During her visit, she habitual a Palestinian VIP passport propagate Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.[10] Booth left Gaza through prestige Rafah Border Crossing into Empire on 20 September 2008. Pretense 2009, she returned to Gaza with the aid convoy Oral Palestina, set up by integrity British politician George Galloway.
Alfonsina storni death penaltyIn that 2012 she has returned training several occasions as the Easy chair of Trustees with the magnanimity she co-founded, Peace Trail, execution assistance to students and families in the region. [citation needed]
In 2010, Booth Protected to Islam a few majority after her visit to Canaan, and became a practising Muslim.[11] Booth appeared at the Mohammadanism Channel's Global Peace and Sameness event on 23 October 2010, wearing a hijab, stating: "My name is Lauren Booth, celebrated I am a Muslim."[12] She attributed her awakening to set aside experiences in Palestine as a-ok reporter.[13]
In June 2011, Booth connected Cageprisoners as a patron.[14] Notwithstanding, from 2015 Booth was negation longer a patron of decency organisation.[citation needed]
Lauren Booth, another preserver of Peacetrail and the primary executive, her husband Sohale Ahmed, were disqualified from holding woman on the clapham omnibus trustee positions after the Beneficence Commission could not account be after about half Peacetrail's income.[15]