Shayma Zhou Yi Yi is a Chinese/Tunisian Al Jazeera correspondent. In 2025, she has been appointed the Network’s bureau chief in China, overseeing editorial strategy and field reporting in one of the world’s most complex geopolitical areas.
Shayma has covered from the field across East Asia, including the 2019 military parade in Pyongyang in North Korea, Hong Kong’s legislative elections, and Taiwan’s 2020 presidential race.
Notably, she was the first international television reporter to enter Wuhan at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, delivering continuous coverage for 20 days from inside the sealed city as it became the global point of the pandemic. She also covered the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the re-election of President Xi Jinping in 2023.
Regionally, Shayma’s coverage included the constitutional referendum in Tunisia, the 2022 China-Arab States Summit in Riyadh, the China-US tariff confrontation in 2025, and the military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese aggression.
