That same year, she and her team received an Emmy Award for her show's coverage of "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun." In a commencement address, Gorani offered these observations to the new graduates: Gorani says that as a journalist, career defining moments are those where one can identify that the work did make a difference; and the being different is a good thing because those differences will make a person memorable. Gorani advised the students to cultivate their differences and from them the students will find their strength. As of March 2022, Gorani has been a late night anchor based in Lviv, in western Ukraine during the Russian invasion. Personal life Gorani considers Paris her home, which is also where her mother resides. From 2004 to 2014, she was based at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and in 2014 she moved back to London. French novelist Yann Moix also dedicated his first novel Jubilations Vers le Ciel to her in 1996. Gorani married German CNN photojournalist Christian Streib on June 14, 2015, in Jardin Majorelle, Morocco. Gorani has a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dog named Louis Gorani Streib that appears with her and her husband frequently on her Instagram account. The dog is the subject of an Instagram account they run in his name to capture Louis the dog's exploits. Awards and recognition 2023: DuPont-Columbia Award for CNN's coverage of the Ukraine war. 2018: News and Documentary Emmy win for "Syria: Gasping for Life in Khan Sheikhoun." 2018: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Manchester Concert Attack. 2016: Television Personality of the Year, Association for International Broadcasting. 2015: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, George Mason University. 2015: Named one of the most powerful women by Forbes Woman Middle East. 2012: News and Documentary Emmy win for coverage of the Egyptian revolution. 2012: News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form (Anderson Cooper 360). 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for the network's coverage of the Arab Spring. 2011–2015: Named among 100 Most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine. 2007: Edward R. Murrow Award for the network's coverage of the continuing coverage of the Middle East conflict. References External links Official profile at CNN.com Hala Gorani's Inside the Middle East Diary, live from Egypt, January 31, 2007 Interview with Gorani (English, except for first