Lyse Doucet (born 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada) is an immensely popular presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World television. Occasionally she reports for BBC Radio 4 or BBC television news but is almost unknown to the domestic British audience. December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bathurst can refer to several cities in English-speaking countries: Bathurst, New Brunswick (Canada) Bathurst, New South Wales (Australia) Bathurst, South Africa, near Grahamstown on the eastern cape. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Flower Purple Violet Tree Balsam Fir Bird Black-capped Chickadee Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked... The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world. ... BBC World is the BBCs 24-hour international, news and information television channel, launched in January 1995. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

She is often deployed to cover special events such as the funeral of Yasser Arafat, reporting of the aftermath of the Tsunami from Tamil Nadu, India in 2004, and from Amman on the war in Iraq in 2003. For other meanings of tsunami, see tsunami (disambiguation). ...

Lyse has a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours Degree from Queen's University at Kingston. Also, she has an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of New Brunswick. She joined the BBC in the early 1980s in West Africa, and then became the BBC's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem, and Afghanistan correspondent based in Kabul. She is now deployed to cover special events in the Middle East and Africa. The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ... Queens University, or simply Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the edge of Lake Ontario. ... The Kings Quad in a Halifax spring fog. ... Motto: Template:Unhide = E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: Location City Information Established: April 1, 1996 Area: (former city) 79. ... A Doctor of Letters is a university academic degree. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Panoramic view from Mt. ... Kabul, Kâbl (locally: کابل), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population of approximately 3 million people. ...

Away from News reporting, Lyse Doucet is a regular presenter of the BBC’s award winning interactive programme Have Your Say (previously Talking Point) broadcast on BBC World Service radio, BBC World Television and BBC Online. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

Awards

In 2002 she was the only journalist to accompany the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai to his brother's wedding when an assassination attempt was made. She and her team were later nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for the exclusive coverage on the attempt. In 2003 she was awarded a Silver Sony Award for News Broadcaster of the Year for her interview with Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Hamid Karzai (Pashto: حامد کرزي, Persian: حامد کرزی) (b. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني; August 1929 - November 11, 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat () and by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004) and President[1] of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). ... Ramallah (Arabic:  ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of approximately 57,000 residents. ...

Quotations

BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson describes her in his book 'News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World' as 'ebullient' and 'great fun'. John Simpson has been World Affairs Editor for BBC News since 1998. ...

The above biography is based on information collected from BBC Websites and an interview with Lyse Doucet on Information Morning Saint John, CBC Radio.