Imran Garda is a news presenter

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

, working for the 24-hour news network's English division, Al Jazeera English, headquartered in the Middle East

Middle East

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. Previously Garda worked at South Africa

South Africa

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n sports channel "Supersport".

He works in the Doha news production office in Doha

Doha

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, Qatar

Qatar

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 and has been at the presenting desk during key moments in Al Jazeera broadcasting history, including the execution of former Iraq

Iraq

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i President Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

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, the university riots in Beirut

Beirut

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 and Israel

Israel

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i airstrikes on Gaza

Gaza

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. He was also the journalist who announced the moment Kosovo

Kosovo

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 had declared independence.

In 2007, Imran presented and co-produced The Father of the Turks a half-hour documentary film

Documentary film

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 on the personality and legacy of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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. He has also reported from India

India

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, on the 60th anniversary of India's independence from Britain, and partition into what is today India and Pakistan

Pakistan

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Imran joined Al Jazeera English from South Africa's Supersport, where he specialised as a cricket

Cricket

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 and football presenter for four years. He regularly hosted programmes covering the English Premiership and Spanish

Spain

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 football, all the major Test Cricket

Test cricket

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 series and, in athletics, the IAAF Grand Prix

IAAF Grand Prix

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 and IAAF Golden League

IAAF Golden League

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Garda is also a regular presenter on the daily news analysis programme "Inside Story". He was also the presenter for Al Jazeera's special series "Focus on Gaza".