Iman Amrani, Journalist
Award-winning freelance journalist, producer and presenter. Working mostly on contemporary political and social documentaries or videos, as well as writing profiles and features.
Has previously worked with The Guardian, Channel 4, Al Jazeera English, Vogue Portugal, The Independent, The New Statesman, Square Mile, Raconteur (business supplement distributed in The Times), Huffington Post and Copa90.
Guest/commentator on The Russell Howard Hour, BBC Two, BBC Radio 5 Live, Al Jazeera, Africa News, House of Lords, Tedx Glasgow, Chatham House among others.
Iman came up with the concept for the award-winning Modern Masculinity YouTube series which she hosted and produced on The Guardian. The series was a success in terms of editorial but also in establishing returning audiences on YouTube with a younger audience. It won a Webby in 2021 in the Documentary Series category was the only non-broadcast nomination for a Royal Television Society journalism award in 2020.
Iman hosted Inside the Shein Machine for Channel 4 with Zandland which investigated the fast fashion giant, Shein. It featured the first undercover invesigation into factories which supply clothes to the brand. The Guardian gave it four stars describing it as “fascinating, if relentlessly depressing“ also saying that “The programme’s headline scoop involves factory working practices, but the most valuable insights teased out by the reporter, Iman Amrani, are focused on the consumer”.
In 2022 and 2023 Iman hosted two series for Al Jazeera English: Generation Change and Generation Sport. The first involved meeting and interviewing young activists around the world, from London to Nairobi, Buenos Aires and Athens, to hear how they were affecting change around the issues they cared most about.
For Generation Sport Iman travelled to America, Tanzania, Italy and Croydon to speak with elite athletes who are using their platforms to speak out about things they care about. She interviewed Patrice Evra, Vincent Kompany, Paul Pogba, Ibtihaj Muhammed, Joshua Buatsi, Alex Honnold and Paola Egonu for the series.
She also hosted a podcast series for Thomson Reuters Foundation called Just Transition, a series which delved into the deporting done by Reuters journalists around the world addressing the people and communities who may be left behind as the world tries to tackle the climate crisis.
Areas that Iman has previously covered include violence, police brutality and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Europe, as well as the Grenfell tragedy. Beyond Europe she has covered the erupting volcano in Guatemala in 2018, narcotourism in Colombia, and Western Sahara’s refugee camps.
She has written and presented extensively in areas of sports and culture, interviewing people such as Tyson Fury, Patrice Evra, Vincent Kompany, Omar Sy, Damso, Polo G, Daddy Yankee, D Double E, Jorge Masvidal, Darren Till, Ramy Youssef, Aya Nakamura, Residente, Krept and Konan, Fara Williams, Russell Howard, Niska, MHD, Soolking, Jon Ronson, Bugzy Malone Francis Rossi and Maya Jama.
Working on both sides of the camera - presenting, producing, shooting and editing - means that Iman is often fully involved in the projects she works on, from conception to completion.
In 2016 she won an award from the Association of International Broadcasters for her report from Molenbeek following the Brussels attacks and also won the prize for Culture Journalist at the Words by Women Awards in 2019.
She was Assistant Producer for a short doc about paramilitary connections with BP, as part of the Guardian's Keep It In The Ground Campaign, which won the SEJ Award for Outstanding In-Depth Reporting. She was also part of the core team on the Guardian Global Media Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This led to her travelling to Kenya and The Gambia to give media training to young activists as part of the international campaign. In 2015 the team won the British Media Award for Best Editorial Campaign.
Iman has previously lived and worked in a Haitian settlement in the Dominican Republic and spent time translating for doctors following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. She also worked for a year in Colombia for the British Council and volunteered with women working the the red light district in Bogota.
Al Jazeera’s Generation Change in 2021, which won Gold in the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards category for Social Impact Documentary,
Fluent in English, Spanish and French.
Represented by Nicola Chang at David Higham for literary enquiries.
