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Reham Al-Farra - killed in Baghdad
Reham Al Farra A star alumnus of the MA Multi-Media Journalism degree died on August 19 in the UN bomb blast in Baghdad, working in the information department for the special envoy to Iraq.
Reham Al Farra, 29, will be missed by everyone in Bournemouth, and her fellow students, and is remembered as a single-minded person of great depth, personal charm and commitment. She was an outstanding achiever in every respect, a British Council Chevening scholar, and an award winning Jordanian journalist before she joined the course.
Reham was the first female daily political columnist writing for Al Arab Al Yawm, a prominent newspaper in Amman.
Her death is a shock and tragedy. She had apparently been hand picked to work in the UN Baghdad team and flew into the capital from New York the night before the blast that killed her and 22 others.
She left the course in September 2002 and immediately landed a job as head of the Arab section of the UN information desk in New York. Three months later she turned down a job with the BBC in London preferring to stay with the UN.
During her time in Bournemouth she did a TV package of a Jordanian refugee camp and interviewed the US ambassador to Jordan who predicted war as a certainty in May 2002. Her report was immediately published by Arabic papers in London.
She also undertook a detailed study of the coverage by CNN of the current Israeli war with Palestine.
She had also been active at the Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists.
A get together of alumni took place at Bournemouth University on October 12.
The university will found a bursary for the course from next year and will aim to produce a monument inscribed with the words of Kofi Annan spoken at a memorial service on September 19.
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