Mah-Rukh Ali

Mah-Rukh Ali (Urdu: ماہ رخ علی, born 1 January 1982) is a Norwegian journalist and news anchor.

Mah-Rukh Ali was born and raised in Oslo, of Pakistani parents, with three brothers. As a 14-year-old, she wrote the book Den sure virkeligheten (lit. "The Sour Reality"), released in 1996. The book elaborates on growing up in the west end of Oslo, Norway as a Muslim girl and about feeling Norwegian but being treated differently. She received several racist letters and threats in reaction to the book.[1][2] She was invited to write a column in Klassekampen after that. She then took a BA degree in Lahore from 2000 to 2002, and studied journalism at Volda University College from 2002 to 2004.[3]

Ali started her career in the NRK radio news in 2003, and later came to work as a reporter for Dagsrevyen, NRK's main news broadcast, in autumn 2005. She was sent as a reporter for the NRK to the earthquake-struck areas of Pakistan during autumn 2005. She has also worked for the daily newspapers Aftenposten and Dagbladet.[3]

Of Pakistani ancestry, in 2006 she became the first news presenter of foreign heritage in a nationwide news broadcast for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). During autumn 2006 she was employed by TV 2, and on 15 January 2007 she co-hosted the first regular broadcast of TV 2 Nyhetskanalen alongside Terje Svabø.[3] In 2010, she became a news anchor for the main station TV2; being 28 years old, she was the station's youngest news anchor.[2]

In October 2015, she published the book Trusselen fra IS (The threat from IS).[4]