Arbana Xharra is an investigative journalist from Kosovo. She has won numerous awards for her reporting and was a 2015 recipient of the International Women of Courage Award from the US State Department. Xharra has been working as a journalist since 2001. She worked for Koha Ditore, the first independent newspaper established in Kosovo. She has been a contributor to Balkan Insight and is currently editor-in-chief of Zëri newspaper.

Xharra is three-time winner of the UNDP Prize for her articles on corruption in Kosovo in 2006, 2007, and 2008. In 2012 she was awarded a Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence and studied the changing attitudes towards Islam in Kosovo. In 2013 she was awarded the ‘Rexhai Surroi’, award by the KOHA Group for an article on extremism and the Stirring Up Debate Award from INPO Ferizaj (Progress Initiative)for creating public discourse on religious extremism.

In 2015 she won the US Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award for the European division.