Arwa Damon Biography
Arwa Damon is an American journalist who a senior international correspondent for CNN. She is based in Istanbul she covered the Middle East from 2003 as a freelance journalist before she joined CNN. Damon is the president and founder of INARA,a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria.
Arwa Damon Age
Damon was born on 19th September 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Arwa Damon Height
Damon is a woman of average stature and shape she stands at a height of 1.74 meters tall.
Arwa Damon Family
Damon was born to an American father and Syrian mother. She spent her childhood years in Wayland, Massachusetts. Damon is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former Syrian Kurd prime minister of Syria. Who was executed in the August 1949 Syrian coup d’état. Her father was a teacher and a middle school director as Robert College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Arwa Damon Husband
Damon is currently not married it seems she to preoccupied to get into a relationship since she is a busy woman.
Arwa Damon Education
Damon studied at Robert College where she skipped a sixth grade and graduated at the age of 16 years. She spent a gap year with her aunt and uncle in Morocco and learned show jumping. Damon later moved back to the U.S. and attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. She finally graduated with honors in 1999 with a double major in French and Biology. Damon is fluent in Arabic, French, Turkish, and English.
Arwa Damon Tattoos
Damon has tattoos under her rolled-up sleeves. She has had them since she started her non-profit organization. Her tattoos are Moroccan patterns of Henna.
Arwa Damon Charity
INARA ( the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance ) is a humanitarian aid, a non-profit organization co-founded by Damon in 2015. It was founded in 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon. INARA provides medical services for children who have been wounded in war zones. It provides rehabilitation treatment for its beneficiaries. The organization mainly focuses on refugee children from Syria. Since August 2108 the organization has provided treatment for over 150 refugee children.
Arwa Damon CNN
Damon has covered the invasion and occupation of Iraq such as the Battle of Najaf and the battle to retake Samarra in 2004. She has also covered the Iraqi elections of January 2005, the constitutional referendum vote in October 2005, and the Iraqi election of December 2005. Damon has reported on the trials and executions of Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar in January 2007. During the Syrian civil war, Damon traveled to Syria multiple times and to the Syrian refugee camps. After the 2012 Benghazi attack, she was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene she got slain Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’ personal diary.
In 2013 she had a feature called Arwa Damon Investigates: Ivory War that followed an anti-poaching unit through Odzala National Park in the Republic of the Congo. Damon travelled to West Africa in April 2014 after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping to hunt for the terrorists on the islands of Lake Chad.
Arwa Damon Salary
Damon earns an annual salary ranging between $ 67, 000 – $96, 000.
Arwa Damon Net worth
Damon has an estimated net worth of $ 3 million.