Laila Al-Arian is a Washington DC-based journalist and the executive producer of Fault Lines, an award-winning current affairs program on Al Jazeera English. She began her time on the program as a producer, making documentaries on subjects ranging 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. Most recently, she was the executive producer and co-writer of “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza,” a feature-length documentary produced by Al Jazeera English. For her work, she has been honored with two News and Documentary Emmys, a Peabody, George Polk, Robert F Kennedy Award in journalism, and Overseas Press Club award. She has been nominated for 19 News and Documentary Emmys.
Prior to joining Fault Lines, Laila worked for the news department at Al Jazeera English, covering stories such as Guantanamo Bay’s youngest detainee and the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in the U.S. 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.
