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'''Imran Garda''' (born 7 August 1982) is a South African journalist, presenter, and award-winning novelist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://penguin.bookslive.co.za/blog/2016/05/23/imran-gardas-novel-the-thunder-that-roars-wins-the-2015-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|title=Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|website=Penguin SA @ Sunday Times Books LIVE|access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref> The long-running host of The Newsmakers<ref>{{Cite web |date=Jun 17, 2020 |title=Today's Newsmaker is Imran Garda |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KWlznMIVks&t=728s |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> from 2015 to 2020, Garda returned to [[TRT World]] in 2022 with the one-on-one interview program ''The InnerView''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.trtworld.com/video/the-innerview | title=The InnerView }}</ref> He was formerly the host of ''Third Rail''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/third-rail.html | title=Third Rail }}</ref> on [[Al Jazeera America]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/al-jazeera-americas-third-rail-debuts-tonight/262884|title=Al Jazeera America's Third Rail Debuts Tonight|website=www.adweek.com|date=17 May 2015 |access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> based in New York City. Garda was also a senior presenter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dignited.com/10210/al-jazeera-launches-aj-global-news-community-dont-watch-news-tv-anymore/|title=Al Jazeera launches AJ+, a global news community for those who don't watch news on TV anymore - Dignited|date=2014-09-17|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> and producer for [[AJ+]], [[Al Jazeera Media Network]]'s all digital video news channel based in San Francisco. Previously, he worked for [[Al Jazeera English]] in Doha,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZtzpcNa6g&list=PLhGhrDMK9swuo-glO5lXB9GgJu0cjzU0M&index=72 | title=Imran Garda - Early al Jazeera Compilation 1 | website=[[YouTube]] | date=13 May 2011 }}</ref> Qatar and Washington,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sON1Y5cHwoM&index=73&list=PLhGhrDMK9swuo-glO5lXB9GgJu0cjzU0M | title=Imran Garda - Early al Jazeera Compilation 2 | website=[[YouTube]] | date=4 July 2011 }}</ref> DC. He also hosted<ref>{{cite web|url=http://journalists.org/2011/11/28/how-they-did-it-al-jazeeras-the-stream/|title=How They Did It: Al Jazeera's The Stream|date=2011-11-28|website=Online News Association|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> the award-winning<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pr.aljazeera.com/awards|title=Awards|publisher=Al Jazeera PR|access-date=2016-07-26|archive-date=11 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811200357/http://pr.aljazeera.com/awards|url-status=dead}}</ref> show ''[[The Stream (news programme)|The Stream]]''.

Garda's media career<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/one-on-one-with-imran-garda/|title=One on One with Imran Garda |work=The Daily Vox|date=2014-07-01|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> began as a sports presenter and reporter for ''[[SuperSport (South African broadcaster)|SuperSport]]'' in [[South Africa]] in 2002. He covered mostly cricket and football. While at Supersport he was published as a freelance writer on politics—which included a series on [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]] ten years after the [[Yugoslav Wars]] ended. {{cn}}