She has worked as a News Correspondent and a reporter on the Today programme and Newsnight, where she was one of the first broadcast journalists to investigate the rise of Islamic radicalism on British university campuses in the early 1990s. She covered the OJ Simpson case as BBC Los Angeles Correspondent and was a presenter at Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011. She has presented many news and arts programmes for BBC TV and radio. Samira went to school in Wimbledon, lives locally, and is Patron of Wimbledon BookFest.