Lamis Elhadidy

Lamis Elhadidy was born in November 1969 in Cairo, Egypt. Her father is Ali Elhadidy, a professor and dean in the Girls College of Ain Shams University, and her mother is Leila Buhairi, the granddaughter of a sheikh of Al-Azhar. In 1983, Elhadidy enrolled at the American University in Cairo, gaining her first editing experience with the university newspaper, The Caravan, where she worked her way up from a reporter to editor-in-chief. In 1987, she graduated from AUC with a B.A. in Mass Communication with highest honors. Her graduate work was a documentary film, Child Labour, on child labour in factories and problems with the workshops, for which she received the Mustafa Amin Award in the same year. ==Career==

In 1987, Elhadidy started working as a desk producer for American TV network NBC in its Cairo bureau. In 2005, when the first multi-candidate presidential election was held in Egypt, she ran media operations for the re-election campaign of the then President, Hosni Mubarak, at the new National Democratic Party headquarters in Heliopolis. The Al Alam Al Youm newspaper, where she worked as the managing editor at that time, was also engaged in providing favourable coverage to Mubarak's campaign promises. Elhadidy debuted as television presenter, hosting a program, , which was broadcast each Monday on national Channel 1 from 2005 to 2009. Subsequently, she became the presenter of various TV programs on state and private channels, such as in 2007, in 2008, and in 2009. In the same year, she was named Best TV Anchor in two mass polls conducted by the newspapers, Al-Ahram and Al-Masry Al-Youm, for her TV programs. During the 2011 protests in Tahrir Square, she refused to appear on the state-owned Nile Life channel for spreading false information up until Mubarak stepped down. She was criticized and assaulted for her strong anti-Islamist views along with her ties to the former regime, and eventually lost her show Men Qalb Masr on Nile Life in March 2011, as a result of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power. She argued to the accusations of her participation in the Mubarak's 2005 election campaign by analogy to the similar practice in the United States, where mass media also involved in the elections, but no one accuses them of bias in favor of the system. In July 2011, she moved on the satellite channel CBC, where she started to host and Half the Truth. The CBC had been accused of being anti-Islamist and politically biased since its inauguration in June 2011, and eventually been dubbed as the channel of feloul ("remnants"), because its presenters included Lamis Elhadidy and her brother-in-law Emad el-Din Adeeb, who made media contributions to Mubarak's 2005 presidential election campaign. On 13 December 2011, she and other Egyptian media personalities received death-threat text messages to their mobile phones, which caused the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights to call for protection of the media specialists. In February 2012, she dedicated a whole episode of her show on CBC to the sexual assaults against women. In 2015, Elhadidy was voted Best Female Presenter by Dear Guest magazine. She also was ranked as the 31st of the 100 most powerful Arab women in the world by Arabian Business, and the 10th of the 50 most powerful women in Africa by Jeune Afrique. ==Personal life==

Since 1994 until December 2025 Elhadidy was married to an Egyptian TV presenter, Amr Adib, with whom she has a son, Nur Al-Din. In December 2025 Lamis ElHadidi announced the divorce of TV presenter Amr Adib. ==Awards==