Raghida Dergham was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She moved to the United States and worked her way through college.
In 1974, Raghida began her first official job as a reporter in Boston, where she created a community bilingual weekly radio program called Haneen ("nostalgia.") Two years later, she moved to New York City to become a foreign correspondent.
In 1989, Raghida joined Al-Hayat, an Arab-language newspaper. At the Belgrade nonaligned summit, she broke several major stories. The following year, she reported on the Gulf War from the United Nations. Now a high-level diplomatic correspondent for the leading independent Arabic newspaper and a regular on CNN, she writes a regular weekly strategic column on International Political Affairs.

She is a Member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum, composed by 100 of the most respected and influential media figures worldwide and was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women in 2011. Arabian Business ranked her number 42. Featured in PBS Documentary "Caught in The Crossfire." She is quoted in several books in many languages. Ms. Dergham is in SUNY's Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Alumna and has received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2003.

She is also Political Analyst for NBC, MSNBC and the Arab satellite LBC for 8 years.