Kamahl Santamaria

Ex-Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks his silence on allegations he sexually harassed colleagues. A former co-host at Al Jazeera English says ...

"They had wanted to meet me for coffee when they were in Doha, but I didn’t have the time, so I wrote them a letter praising Leah and the way they had brought her up. "I wish I had the courage to shout my complaints from the rooftops to avoid another soul being harmed by him. "I've lived in the Middle East for more than a decade as an unmarried woman, I've travelled to more than 60 countries, and I am not naive to how women can be treated and viewed," Harding says. Do people think I wanted him to kiss me on the cheek like that?" "Sometimes the only way to cope with sexual harassment is to brush it off and pick your battles. Harding has also since heard about that interview, and notes it took place in the same year she was paired with the Kiwi on AJNewsGrid. "If I gave any of my examples he would know it was me. That may be the case in other newsrooms, but at Al Jazeera English this is categorically not the case," he said in a statement to Stuff. "It was the Kamahl and Leah show. At the University of Florida Gainesville, Harding took journalism courses, minoring in Arabic, and making it her goal to find connections with the station. There was not a system in place to protect me from people like Kamahl, and Kamahl knew that." There was one intimate story I told her which she would actually reference and joke about herself on occasions, apropos of nothing."