Last updated March 2008
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Kim Ghattas joined the BBC in 2000 reporting from Beirut. Since January 2008 she has been the the BBC's State department correspondent based in Washington DC.
Kim was part of the Emmy-award winning BBC team that covered the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
She also covered the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri, the end of 30 years of Syrian military presence in Lebanon, the death of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, the Israeli army withdrawal from south Lebanon, the death of Hafez el Assad in Syria and the coming to power of his son.
She travelled extensively to Iraq for several years, before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Kim began working as a freelance journalist while still at university, writing for the Lebanese Daily Star, an English language daily; she then worked for several US newspapers as well as the Financial Times and a Dutch newspaper, de Volkskrant.
Kim graduated from French language school in Lebanon and from the American University of Beirut with a BA in Political Science.
Kim was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese father and a Dutch mother.
