Rhana Natour is an award-winning journalist and on-air correspondent who specializes in documentary storytelling and explanatory journalism. Her stories have aired on PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English, More Perfect Union, and Scripps News and her writing has appeared in such publications as The Guardian and VICE News.
Rhana shared an Emmy nomination for her work on the ABC News Nightline special “Crisis in Syria” and her feature story for VICE News called “The Shooter’s Wife” received an award from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association.
In 2023, her reporting on the case of Dennis Hope, a man who spent 27 years in solitary confinement in a Texas state prison led to the making of “The Box” a documentary episode on the award-winning Al Jazeera English current affairs program Fault Lines that included new revelations on why he was left in isolation for so long. Rhana’s most recent work, “Coming To America” is the August issue of The Atavist Magazine and is the first deep-dive on the issue of child amputees from this war in Gaza. She is also directing a documentary on this subject for Al Jazeera English forthcoming in October. Rhana is native of Dearborn,Michigan and a graduate of The University of Michigan.
