| Aline Abboud | |
| Birth Date: | 23 January 1988 |
| Birth Place: | East Berlin, East Germany |
| Education: | Leipzig University |
| Employer: | ARD |
| Known For: | Presenting Tagesthemen |
Aline Abboud (born 23 January 1988)[1] is a German journalist and television presenter. Having studied Arab studies at Leipzig University, she worked for the German public broadcaster ZDF as an editor and reporter with a focus on foreign affairs. Since September 2021, Abboud presents Tagesthemen, a daily news magazine broadcast by ARD. She is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to hold this position.
Aline Abboud was born in 1988 in East Berlin,[2] then part of the German Democratic Republic, to a Lebanese father and a German mother. She read Arab studies at Leipzig University with stints in Beirut and Istanbul.[3] Speaking to Leipziger Volkszeitung in 2021, Abboud said that she had always wished to become a journalist to cover the Middle East, and that she had chosen her field of study with this wish in mind.[4] After her studies, she volunteered at the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament.[5]
In 2016 Abboud became an editor at heute, a news programme broadcast by ZDF, one of Germany's two public broadcasters. She also presented heuteXpress on the same channel. From 2018, she contributed to auslandsjournal, a ZDF format on foreign affairs, as a reporter. Since 2019, she presents "DIE DA OBEN!" for the streaming service Funk. Abboud has acted as a producer on a documentary (Und jetzt Wir) about youth protests for Arte.[2] She serves on the advisory board of the Candid Foundation, a nonprofit organisation focussing on the Southern Mediterranean and Western Asia.[6]
In 2021 Abboud joined the public broadcaster ARD to succeed Pinar Atalay[7] on Tagesthemen, the channel's flagship[4] daily news magazine.[8] She is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to be appointed to this position.[9] On 4 September 2021, she made her debut appearance on the programme.[8]
She has one child.[10]