Malika Bilal

Malika Bilal is an award-winning international journalist who splits her time between Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC. She hosts The Take, Al Jazeera English’s flagship daily news vodcast, where her intimate interviews with newsmakers around the world have twice earned her the Gracie Award for Best Podcast News Host. Prior to The Take, she spent eight years co-hosting the Emmy-nominated TV news talk show, The Stream, broadcast to more than 310 million households in more than 140 countries. A Chicago native, Malika studied at the American University in Cairo and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She previously worked for Voice of America, has written for the Chicago Tribune, NPR and ESPN, and has hosted documentaries for PBS Digital and Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines. Malika’s reporting has taken her across the US and the Middle East, and she’s interviewed guests spanning the political and entertainment spectrum: from the late President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama, to Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah. Her favorite interviews, though, are with the people you haven’t heard of yet.