Reza Sayah is CNN’s Pakistan-based international correspondent responsible for covering Pakistan and surrounding countries in South Asia.
Sayah traveled to Iran for the country's presidential elections in June and has since been an integral part of the network's coverage of the post-election unrest.
Since his appointment to this position in January 2008, Sayah has reported on Pakistan’s general elections; Pakistan’s civilian government launching biggest military offensive against Taliban; serial bomb blasts in western Karachi; former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s resignation; suicide truck bombing of Marriott hotel in Islamabad; the then presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s first visit to Afghanistan and also interviewed current Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari & prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Sayah has also followed Pakistan’s reactions on Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Sayah joined CNN from WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan where he was an investigative reporter and anchor. In addition to WXYZ, Sayah has worked at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri, WTAJ-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia.
In his journalism career spanning more than 12 years, Sayah has covered a variety of high-profile national and international stories including Hurricane Katrina and the sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area.
Sayah earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Pepperdine University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Sayah left for the U.S. in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution. Sayah is fluent in Farsi and is conversational in French.
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