Daniele Hamamdjian

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Daniele Hamamdjian is an Egyptian-born television journalist, who had been an international correspondent in the London bureau for CTV News since 2014. [1] On October 25, 2023, Corus Entertainment announced [2] that Hamamdjian was joining Global National starting on that date on a temporary basis, as a Special Correspondent reporting from the Middle East on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. She is most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee, receiving nominations for Best National Reporter at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her reportage on the Rohingya conflict, [3] and Best Editorial Research at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for her W5 documentary feature Consumed by Conspiracy. [4]

In June 2014 Hamamdigian joined NBC news [5]

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Hamamdjian emigrated with her family to Laval, Quebec, in the 1980s. [1] She studied journalism at Concordia University, and joined CTV in 2006 as a local reporter for the network's Montreal affiliate CFCF-DT, before transferring to the parliamentary bureau in Ottawa in 2009. [1]

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