Alia Ibrahim

co-founder and CEO Daraj.com

Alia Ibrahim is a co-founder and CEO of Daraj.com, an independent digital media platform that was launched in November 2017.

Before that Ibrahim was a Senior Correspondent at Al-Arabiya News Channel. Since 2015, Ibrahim has produced and directed episodes for Special Mission, a prime-time investigative reporting show. She joined Al-Arabiya in 2008 as a senior roving correspondent.

Ibrahim’s opinion and news stories appear in a number of publications including Al-Hayat newspaper, Al-Arabiya net, and until 2011 The Washington Post where she had been a contributing reporter since 2005. She started her career in 1996 as a general news reporter at The Daily Star in Beirut. She became managing editor of the newspaper in 2004. Since 2016, she has been an instructor of Journalism at the Lebanese American University.

She is a mother of two girls Yasma 17, and Mia 16.

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