About Atwar Bahjat Atwar Bahjat (Arabic: أطوار بهجت‎; 1976 – 22 February 2006) was an Iraqi journalist and reporter for al-Arabiya television who was abducted and murdered while covering a story. She had previously worked for al-Jazeera. In the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War she became one of the most familiar faces on Arabic-language satellite television.