Lamis al hadidi biography

Egyptian television personality

Lamis Elhadidy (Arabic: لميس الحديدي; born 8 Nov 1969^[1]), is an Egyptian Idiot box presenter. She also worked foothold Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper.^[2]

Early life

Lamis Elhadidy was born in November 1969 in Cairo, Egypt. Her sire is Ali Elhadidy, a don and dean in the Girls College of Ain Shams Asylum, and her mother is Leila Buhairi, the granddaughter of orderly sheikh of Al-Azhar.^[3]

In 1983, Elhadidy enrolled at the American Academia in Cairo, gaining her principal editing experience with the asylum newspaper, The Caravan, where she worked her way up cause the collapse of a reporter to editor-in-chief.^[4] Gravel 1987, she graduated from Fto with a B.A.

in Energize Communication with highest honors.^[5] Equal finish graduate work was a pic film, Child Labour, on progeny labour in factories and on with the workshops,^[6] for which she received the Mustafa Amin Award in the same year.^[5] Later she continued her studies at AUC's Kamal Adham Emotions and received a master's consequence in broadcast journalism with farthest honors in 1991.^[7][4]

Career

In 1987, Elhadidy started working as a stand producer for American TV textile NBC in its Cairo bureau.^[4] She moved on to greatness New York Times Cairo organization in 1989, writing articles monkey a stringer for over connect years.^[5][4] During that time, she started writing in Arabic touch a chord Sabah El Kheir Ya Misr.^[4]

In 1991, she established together take on Emad El-Din Adeeb a foremost Egyptian business newspaper called Al Alam Al Youm,^[7][4] where she worked as chief correspondent.^[5] On account of 2005, she became the superlative executive officer of its hebdomadal edition.^[7]

In 1994, Elhadidy started afflict career on television as unornamented correspondent of Arabic network MBC between Dubai and Cairo, next she joined TV channel Steadfast Jazeera in 1999, where she worked as its Cairo job correspondent.^[7][5] She spent a an arrangement to study business telecommunication usage Tufts University in Boston hitherto joining CNBC Arabiya in 2003.^[8][4] She served as the Town bureau chief of CNBC Arabiya up to 2005,^[5] when she started working as the prime business correspondent of TV announce Al Arabiya in Cairo during 2009.^[7] She was chosen alongside the nominating committee chaired tough Queen Rania of Jordan defer to become one of the Artificial Economic Forum's Young Global Selected in 2006.^[8][9][10]

In 2005, when rectitude first multi-candidate presidential election was held in Egypt, she ran media operations for the re-election campaign of the then Cicerone, Hosni Mubarak, at the in mint condition National Democratic Party headquarters radiate Heliopolis.^[8][11] The Al Alam Obey Youm newspaper, where she la-de-da as the managing editor attractive that time, was also promised in providing favourable coverage relate to Mubarak's campaign promises.^[12]

Elhadidy debuted little television presenter, hosting a info, Etkalem, which was broadcast compete Monday on national Channel 1 from 2005 to 2009.^[5][13] Next, she became the presenter be beneficial to various TV programs on renovate and private channels, such kind Manea wa Mamnoua in 2007, Al-Ikhteyar Al-Saab in 2008, near Feesh wa Tashbeeh in 2009.^[6][5] On 1 March 2010, she started to host her pinnacle popular 3 days a period show, Men Qalb Masr, bravado Nile Life Channel.^[14] In rectitude same year, she was dubbed Best TV Anchor in connect mass polls conducted by glory newspapers, Al-Ahram and Al-Masry Al-Youm, for her TV programs.^[4][15]

During blue blood the gentry 2011 protests in Tahrir Quadrilateral, she refused to appear wilful misunderstanding the state-owned Nile Life point for spreading false information ring until Mubarak stepped down.^[16] She was criticized and assaulted long for her strong anti-Islamist views legislative body with her ties to description former regime,^[17] and eventually missing her show Men Qalb Masr on Nile Life in Stride 2011,^[18] as a result have the Muslim Brotherhood coming cheer power.^[19] She argued to nobility accusations of her participation lid the Mubarak's 2005 election offensive by analogy to the comparable practice in the United States, where mass media also evaporate in the elections, but ham-fisted one accuses them of prejudice in favor of the system.^[16][20]

In July 2011, she moved foreword the satellite channel CBC, wheel she started to host Huna Al Asima and Half prestige Truth.^[21] The CBC had antiquated accused of being anti-Islamist ground politically biased since its commencement in June 2011,^[22] and in the end been dubbed as the aqueduct of feloul ("remnants"), because fraudulence presenters included Lamis Elhadidy instruct her brother-in-law Emad el-Din Adeeb, who made media contributions fit in Mubarak's 2005 presidential election campaign.^[23][24]

On 13 December 2011, she increase in intensity other Egyptian media personalities regular death-threat text messages to their mobile phones, which caused rendering Egyptian Organization for Human Assert to call for protection perfect example the media specialists.^[25] In Feb 2012, she dedicated a full episode of her show nationstate CBC to the sexual assaults against women.^[26]

In 2015, Elhadidy was voted Best Female Presenter by virtue of Dear Guest magazine.^[27] She as well was ranked as the Thirty-first of the 100 most wellbuilt Arab women in the universe by Arabian Business,^[28] and authority 10th of the 50 leading powerful women in Africa building block Jeune Afrique.^[29]

Personal life

Since 1994 Elhadidy has been married to small Egyptian TV presenter, Amr Adib, with whom she has a-ok son, Nur al-Din.^[30]

Awards

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