Career
She is the co-host, along with Qusai, of the hit television talent show Arabs Got Talent. She is also the host of her own television show Scoop, which provides the latest Hollywood news and interviews with notable actors. The show has been dubbed as being "the Arab version of East!"
Raya started her career as a print and broadcast journalist in Beirut before moving to the United Kingdom in 1999.
She holds a Bachelor in economics, a Masters in Cinema and a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Westminster in London.
She is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Italian. Raya also hosted a weekly business show "World Business", airing on Consumer News and Business Channel Europe and Asia, Public Broadcasting Service in America and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Arabiya in the Arab world for which she attended the World Economic Forum at Davos.
She also hosted events like the American Idol competition in Dubai as well as the launch of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi. Raya also regularly collaborates as a celebrity journalist with several television stations like Entertainment Tonight in the United States, Star television in Switzerland, ZDF in Germany, ORF in Austria and Telecine in Brazil and is often requested to do generic interviews for major movie studios like Warner Brothers, Disney and Paramount.
