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May Chidiac ((アラビア語:مي شدياق)) (born June 20, 1963) is a Lebanese Maronite journalist. Chidiac is a former television journalist at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) and one of the station's main television anchors until an assassination attempt on her life. She was one of the few critics of Syria's keeping troops stationed in Lebanon after the end of the Lebanese Civil War and charged that the Taif Accords stipulated that Syria withdraw from Lebanon. On the day she was attacked, after the Cedar Revolution and Syria's troop withdrawal from Lebanon earlier that year, she hosted a talk show in which she criticized Syria's continuous meddling in Lebanon's affairs and voiced fears of further violence ahead of the UN report on the death of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri. On February 3, 2009, she announced her resignation on her LBC show "Bi Kol Jor'a". May Chidiac obtained her PhD in “Sciences de L’Information et de la Communication” with high distinction from Université Pantheon Paris II Assas in 2008. She continued her academic profession as a Journalism and Radio/TV professor at Notre Dame University- Louaize (NDU) till present. She whanded the 2007/2008 masters honorary award in Journalism at SELCA – SORBONNE France. In 2014, May Chidiac published her second book, “La télévision mise à nue | La politique et la television: Qui télécommande?”, Published by the "L'Orient des Livres". English and Arabic translations will be published in 2016. The book was awarded the "Phoenix Prize" which recognizes French books written by Lebanese writers. ==Assassination Attempt== Chidiac was seriously injured on 25 September 2005, by a car bomb in Jounieh, Lebanon. The bomb which nearly killed her was a one-pound device, detonated as she entered her car. Her left leg below the knee was blown off and her hair and clothes were set on fire. She was in stable condition following the amputation of her severely injured left arm. The blast was one of a series of bombings in Lebanon mostly targeting critics of Syria, but including the centrist Lebanese defense minister, Elias Murr. One other prominent journalist, Samir Kassir, and anti-Syrian politicians including George Hawi and Gebran Tueni, editor and publisher of the daily newspaper, ''An-Nahar'', were killed in these attacks. After months of treatment and numerous surgeries in Beirut and Paris, May appeared on TV on May 25, 2006, defiant, smiling and promising to return to journalism. On 27 January 2006, Chidiac announced her candidacy for the vacated Maronite seat in Lebanon's Baabda-Aley district in a televised interview. On 12 July 2006, May Chidiac returned to Beirut. Her first visit in Lebanon was to the shrine of Saint Charbel, in the Byblos region. This was the location where she spent the day before the attack on her life. She participated in a mass celebrated by the superior of the monastery, Fr. Tannous Nehme. In 2007, May Chidiac published her biography, ''Le Ciel m'attendra'' (French for ''"heaven can wait”'')〔(May Chidiac publishes her book “ the sky can wait” )〕 in which she tells her painful experience. On February 3, 2009 May Chidiac made a surprise announcement on the air that she would cease presenting her acclaimed program "B Kil Jora'a" on LBC, as protest to political interference in her work and the oppression of journalists. Through this unprecedented protest, she was successful in restoring respect to both the profession of journalism and Lebanon's living martyrs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May Chidiac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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