Mishal Husain

Mishal Husain (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) was born in Northampton, UK, in 1973.She is currently a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World, presenting Impact Asia between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as appearing on the BBC One weekend news bulletins. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten.
Hussein is married and has three sons, her eldest, Rafael was born in 2004, and she gave birth to twin boys on 19 June 2006. She returned from maternity leave to present the evening news on 17 December 2006.
In 2009, The Times named Husein as one of the most influential Muslim women in Britain.