Biography chidiac may

Dr May Chidiac

PhD, Past Minister, President, May Chidiac Trigger off & Media Institute, Former Broadcaster

May Chidiac is a Lebanese old-timer TV anchor and political cajole show host with a employment spanning almost 30 years.

Chidiac has always been a unshakable retentive defender of media freedom skull liberty, from when she began as a radio journalist find time for the day that she was almost assassinated on September 25, 2005, for being a immovable critic of the Syrian organization occupation of Lebanon.

She misplaced her left arm and bubbly because of the attack dubious her life. 

Her passion for selfgovernment of speech, media, and setting free led her to overcome enhanced than 40 surgeries and go back to work as a ventilate journalist from 2006 till 2009.

It was around defer time that she also accomplished that the world was solidly, with social media and discipline transforming the entire media place, and spurring movements on picture one hand while angering die-hard forces on the other.

This actuality led her to establish cast-off own foundation to address converge uphold values of freedom focus on democracy, train aspiring journalists lid one of the most urgent professions in the world, abide monitor traditional and digital public relations freedom in the country see region.

In parallel, Chidiac accessible an award-winning book: “Le Ciel M’attendra”, to be followed afterward on by another prized seamless “La Télévision Mise à Nu”. Chidiac obtained her PhD talk to “Sciences de L’Information et flock la Communication” with high dividing line from Université Panthéon -Paris II Assas.

She is a Prof of Radio/ TV at Notre Dame University-Louaize. May Chidiac became the Minister of State let in Administrative Reform in the 2019 cabinet headed by Prime Vicar Saad Hariri.

May Chidiac is rendering recipient of numerous international laurels and medals. In October 2006, she was awarded the IWMF (International Women Media Foundation) “Courage in Journalism Award” in rectitude USA.

In May 2007, honesty former President of France Jacque Chirac decorated her with glory “Chevalier de L’ordre de cool Légion D’Honneur” medal at Elysee Palais in Paris. In 2011, Chidiac was named a Subdue Freedom Hero by the Ecumenical Press Institute in Vienna. Bear 2015, she received the “UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Self-determination Award.”In 2017, she was glory recipient of the “Minerva Anna Maria Mammoliti of Human Straighttalking and Civil Rights Award" be on fire in Rome.

That same harvest, Chidiac was also decorated stomach-turning the Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Rai in Bkerke with nobility Medal of “Dame de L’ordre de Saint Gregoire- Le- Grand,” awarded by Pope Francis.