The Lead · Profile
Multilingual journalist, documentary filmmaker and editorial leader at BBC World Service. Specialising in Africa, culture, business, identity and the lived experience of women — turning complex, diverse audiences into loyal ones. Named Best Journalist at the 2025 Forty Under Forty Awards.
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About
I grew up between Tunisia, France and Martinique, and have spent the last fourteen years reporting and editing across the world from BBC World Service. I write and present in English and French.
My Master's in Systems Thinking at the University of Exeter formalised what the newsroom had already taught me: complexity is not the enemy of clarity. It is the path to it.
14+
Years at BBC
2025
Forty Under Forty · Best Journalist
4M+
Documentary views
3
Languages
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Documentaries & Journalism
Featured film
BBC Africa Eye · 2023
Director · Producer
The first BBC Africa Eye documentary produced in two languages — French and English. It has reached more than four million viewers and been screened at Columbia University, the University of Oxford, the Africa Centre in London, and in Paris.
4M+
Views
2
Languages
4
Cities screened
Live reporting
London, September 2022
Anchoring and editorial leadership during one of the most-watched moments in modern broadcasting history.
Kigali, June 2022
Reporting from Kigali on the shifting balance of an institution still negotiating its own future.
Junket interviews
Conversations with world-leading talent — used not as celebrity ornament but as a platform to spark dialogue and shape global conversations about identity, work and the times we live in.
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Media Strategy
Working at the BBC, I apply systems thinking to editorial architecture, audience development and quality.
I am a practitioner-strategist: I create the space for structured reflection that busy newsrooms rarely have, then translate it back into the work. Audiences grow. Engagement with women and young people deepens.
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Editorial Leadership
I lead GWiN at BBC World Service — amplifying female journalists across editorial and commissioning, and reshaping how women are represented in global news coverage.
Championing women in commissioning, on screen, on air, and in the byline — across global services.
Designing initiatives that address how women's stories are told, and who gets to tell them.
Reaching young women and underserved communities with reporting that earns their genuine trust.
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Teaching & Community
Public service is the through-line. Free art programmes, forest-school French lessons, masterclasses for working journalists, and a parallel practice in watercolour and photography that feeds the reporting.
Forest school French
~300
children taught to read and write
Public art programmes
2,000+
participants, free and open
Podcast masterclasses
—
commissioning, craft, voice
Public speaking
—
on media, identity, systems
Folio VI · Collaborate
Boutique media consultancy, co-founded with three partners. Editorial strategy, audience development and commissioning for global broadcasters and publishers.