Zain Verjee

She is State Department correspondent with CNN, based in Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked as a newsreader for The Situation Room and a co-anchor of CNN International's Your World Today.
Verjee joined CNN in 2000.She has covered world events such as the Agra Summit between President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India, the conflict in the Middle East, the trial of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milošević, the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Hajj and the war in Iraq. She, also, reports about African business news for the weekly program Inside Africa, which offers an in-depth look into news on the continent.
In July 2006, she reported from the DMZ, and in September, she conducted an exclusive interview with former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami.
Her thoughts about The Pilgrimage to Mecca:
"There's a saying that a Pilgrim that travels to Mecca for the Hajj should leave the Holy City quickly, so, as not to get attached to it."
She recently published "Live & On the Air", a children's book exploring the experiences of a young girl who moves from rural Kenya to Nairobi to work as a broadcaster.Verjee has also produced successful radio campaigns spreading awareness of Deadly HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & Polio.
On January 16, 2008, while taping a report on an anti-government protest in Nairobi, Verjee was hit in the back by a tear gas canister fired by police; the attack was later broadcast on CNN.