Yaara Bou Melhem

Yaara Bou Melhem is a multi-award winning reporter and video journalist.

Yaara’s first short documentary saw her awarded the Young Australian Television Journalist of the Year in 2009.

In 2011, she was named Young Australian Journalist of the Year by the Walkley Foundation for her reporting from Syria, one of the highest honours that can be bestowed on young journalists working from Australia.

Yaara also took out the International Journalism award at the prestige Walkley awards in the same year for her series on the Arab uprisings 'Struggle for Freedom'.

Yarra won the 2011 United Nations Australia Media Peace Award for Best TV Current Affairs and has previously been a four-time finalist for her TV reporting from the Middle East.

While currently based in Sydney, Yaara reports for Australian and International networks around the world including SBS Dateline and Al Jazeera English.

You can view some of Yaara's most recent stories at www.yaara.tv.