Shahira Amin

Shahira Amin first opened her eyes in a place called Madi located in Egypt. She grew up with her parents and a sister named Nelly. For her early education, she was sent to study at Kuala Lumpur at British Internation Schools at Colombo.Her wiki has not revealed her exact age and her nationality. 

Later, she pursued higher education at American University at Cairo and graduated by receiving a Bachelor's degree in economics. From the same university that she got her bachelor's degree, she also received a Master's degree in Television Journalism.

Amin was the former senior anchor at Nile TV but she had to resign from the position due to controversies surrounding her. Amin has remained CNN’s correspondent for the weekly program Inside Africa for almost 8 years. She currently resides in Cairo, Egypt.

Talking about her husband and marriage, there is no exact information regarding those. 

On 3rd Februrary, 2011, Amin resigned from her job of senior anchor at Nile TV because her channel’s coverage of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was widely disapproved. She stated that her team was only allowed to cover the pro-Mubarak and weren’t permitted to cover the Tahrir protests.

Shahira Amin was widely criticized for her interview with an Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011 in Egypt, after which Shalit was released from prison after more than five years in jail in Gaza. After it was alleged that Shahira was held by armed, masked Hamas militants during the interview, Israeli officials and political commentators stated that the interview had broken the ethical rules of journalism and violated the terms of Shalit’s release.

But Amin urged that although it was “true that he was brought in by armed Hamas men, but in the room itse’f there were only Egyptian intelligence people. They didn’t intervene, and neither did the Hamas men” and stated that the criticisms pointed towards her were “incorrect” stating “I’m a journalist, and any journalist would want to conduct an interview that could be aired all over the world.”

Furthermore, she stood with the ethicality of the interview and stated that the interview was held “after he had been released by Hamas and had a medical checkup by the Red Cross.” Unfortunately the Red Cross spokesman denied any kind of medical check-up taking place.