May Chidiac

May Chidiac (Arabic: مي شدياق‎‎) (born 20 June 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 3 February 2009, she announced her resignation on her LBC show Bi Kol Jor'a.

Chidiac earned 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, she published her second book, La télévision mise à nue | La politique et la television: Qui télécommande?, which was awarded the Phoenix Prize which recognizes French books written by Lebanese writers.

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.

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