2010
SEPTEMBER Lehman
Brothers goes
MARCH Queen
bankrupt; Fannie MARCH Swine
Rania of Jordan
Mae and Freddie
NOVEMBER The US
flu alert following
launched her own
Mac are bailed out
elects Barack Obama
Mexico deaths
YouTube Channel
by US government;
as its 44th President
Bradford & Bingley
nationalised; Lloyds
TSB takes over
HBOS; RBS is part-
nationalised
2008 2009
AUGUST Usain Bolt DECEMBER An Iraqi
FEBRUARY Northern
and Michael Phelps reporter threw
smash records at the his shoes at George
FEBRUARY Viva
Rock nationalised
Beijing Olympics W Bush
Palestina launches a
convoy entering Gaza
following the Israeli
incursions
My Decade What the 00s meant for me
Little did I know how – the bodies coming back from
quickly my career path was Afghanistan, the inhuman-
about to change. Within a few ity people everywhere seem
months, an editor who had to be capable of, the natural
seen me do a little reporting disasters that seem to hit the
asked if I might like to try world’s most vulnerable, the
my hand at presenting. I colossal challenge of dealing
did a ‘screen test’ which was with our changing climate.
actually live on air, nervously And then I count my
Mishal Hussain filled the vacant 4am slot the blessings, and hold my fam- Hany El-Banna
BBC Television presenter following week, and set off in ily closer to me. For this was Founder of Islamic Relief
January 2000 feels less like a new direction. also the decade that I found The whole world dreamed that
another decade and more like That new direction, my Mr Right (turns out I knew the new millennium would
another lifetime. Looking career in front of the camera, him all along), and became a bring a new hope for human-
back, my overriding instinct is has given me many wonderful mother. This was the decade ity, and we were motivated to
one of gratitude – these have opportunities and means that that I learned the importance achieve the new Millennium
been ten decisive years in my every day of my working life of compromise, of keeping Development Goals. But
life and I count my blessings is different. But when I started my own counsel, that it’s not the unfortunate scenes
many times over. presenting in that spring of always necessary to have your of September 11th had an
In January 2000 I had just 2000, I had no idea how many say. The decade I grew up. enormous impact on the phil-
seen in the new Millennium of the stories I would cover And my hopes for the next osophical thinking of every
from an Austrian mountaintop. would have a particular reso- decade? Well, they’re inextri- citizen of the world, and we
I was single, unsure of when, if nance for Muslims: 9/11, the cably linked to my hopes for are still recovering from this.
ever, Mr Right would appear, Iraq war, 7/7, Afghanistan. my three boys. May they flour- At Islamic Relief (IR) our
and also unsure that my new Looking back, that January ish, be good citizens, fulfil plan as humanitarian work-
job, as a producer in the BBC’s 2000 seems like a less compli- their potential and know the ers before September 11th was
Business and Economics Unit, cated time – a bit like looking importance of giving some- to improve the quality of the
was really for me. Overnight back on life before children. thing back. And may they humanitarian sector in devel-
shifts in Television Centre were Today, I dwell on the issues never, ever, forget to count oping countries.
not helping my mood. that make the news every day their blessings. After September 11th, we
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