Laila Al-Arian is the executive producer of Fault Lines, an award-winning news documentary program on Al Jazeera English. Over the past two years, she has produced several investigative documentaries on Israel’s war on Gaza, including The Night Won’t End, Starving Gaza, Kids Under Fire, and All That Remains about a child amputee from Gaza. Her other reporting has ranged from the Trump administration's Muslim ban to the impact of the heroin epidemic on children and an investigation into factory conditions producing garments for Walmart and Gap in Bangladesh. Prior to joining Fault Lines, Laila worked for Al Jazeera English for four years, covering everything from Guantanamo Bay’s youngest detainee to the re-settlement of Iraqi refugees in the U.S.

For her work, she has been honored with four News and Documentary Emmys, two Peabody Awards, a Robert F Kennedy Award, an Overseas Press Club award, and has been nominated for 28 News and Documentary Emmys.

She received a BA in English literature from Georgetown University and an M.S. from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Independent, and other publications, and she is co-author of the book Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians.

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