Khalisah bint Sinan al-Jilani

Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani is a former reporter from the Humanity-First focused Westerlund News. Post-Reaper War, Khalisah has been functioning as the Shepard-Vakarian's public relations coordinator.
=== Description ===
Khalisah is a human female, with dark skin and hair, teal eyes, and prominent cheekbones. Her skin color and name suggest she has at least genetic ties to the middle-east or Indian sub-continent area of Earth. Quick thinking, suspicious, and cynical, Khalisah made her name as a aggressive reporter, conducing hostile ambush interviews- a skill that has more than occasionally gotten her into trouble. Khalisah also appears to have had an anti-alien bent, though this seems to be far less pronounced after the Reaper War.
== History ==
=== Mass Effect ===
In 2183 Commander Shepard was chasing rogue Spectre Saren Arterius. When the Normandy arrived back from tracking down one of their leads, Khalisah was waiting to try to interview Shepard. While her questions started out cordial enough, the reporter for Westerlund News quickly began to not-so subtle accuse Shepard of putting aliens before humanity and being overly influenced by the Citadel Council, upon which at that time humanity had no seat. Shepard, though annoyed, answered all of the questions calmly, dodging dicey matters with skill. Khalisah was annoyed in turn at being unable to trip up the Commander.
=== The Andromeda Initiative ===
In 2184, after the the Battle of the Citadel and the death of Commander Shepard a few weeks later, Khalisah produced a number of reports reguarding the Andromeda Initiate- a massive effort to try to settle the nearby Andromeda Galaxy and eventually establish trade between there and the Milky Way. Khalisah sensed a conspiracy afoot and feared there might be anti-human corruption at work in addition to it being a grotesquely expensive vanity project. She questioned the dismissal of one Alec Ryder from the Aliance and his involvement with the project, and executed one of her trademark ambush interviews on one Cora Harper to which Cora did not handle well. 
=== Mass Effect 2 ===
When Commander Shepard appeared back in Citadel space after her apparent death in 2185, Khalisah was able to snare another impromptu interview. When Khalisah asked about the huge numbers of human ships and lives spent on Shepard's word to spare the Council, Shepard firmly responded that the people who died were heroes and they deserved better. Khalisah once again failed to make Shepard look bad to those who didn't already dislike her.
=== Mass Effect 3 ===
Khalisah was working on a long form-interview with David Anderson in 2186 inside of his apartment on the Citadel. Unfortunately, the interview was never concluded due to the outbreak of the Reaper War. As Earth burned and humanity was hung out to dry as ever other species focused on their own survival, Khalisah became convinced of another anti-human conspiracy being carried out. She made great efforts to obtain an interview with the Citadel Council, but was denied. When she refused to give up, Commander Armando-Owen Bailey took up the task of stonewalling her. As she made ready to camp outside his office until he relented, she saw Commander Shepard. She turned her stress and fear at the Commander, demanding to know how she could just abandon Earth with so many dying. Shepard took pity on her and spoke to Khalisah with encouragement- telling her that all of them needed as much help as they could get, that Shepard had everyone's best interests at heart, and to keep asking the tough questions there on the Citadel. Though they had not often seen eye-to-eye, Khalisah found herself glad that Shepard was on their side and promised to help as best she could.
When the Citadel was assaulted by Cerberus, Khalisah was near the station's communication towers, and ended up using her news van to call for C-Sec's assistance. 
== Every One That Asketh ==
On January 14, 2188 after the first meeting of the new (and much larger) Council, Shepard found herself absolutely swarmed by reporters and ended up separated for the other councilors in the fervor. As the press threated to cause a flashback, Khalisah saw what was happening and grabbed the new councilor and dragged her away from the crowd and bundled her into a skycar. As Shepard regained control and realized that it was possible that someone was kidnapping her, Khalisah sharply called out “Shepard, if you punch me now, I swear I will open this door again and leave you to the vultures.” 
She explained to Shepard that Westerlund News had been dissolved due to losing too many executives in the war, and also that no one deserved to be mobbed like she just had been. After promising that she would not share where she dropped her off, Shepard directed Khalisah to drop her off at the Silversun Strip.
A week later, Shepard and her fiancé Garrus Vakarian asked Khalisah to assist them in dealing with the issues arising from their fame. Shepard's logic was that she trusted Khalisah to tell her the unvarnished truth. and even if she hadn't agreed with Shepard the reporter would eventually listen and make her own decisions. After a bit of negotiation, they came to an agreement on employment terms.
Category:Side Characters
Category:Humans