May Chediac also spelled as May Chediak or May Chidiac is a Christian Lebanese journalist and TV Personality. May Chediac works for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation - LBC Group, where she is a television anchor.
Her first appearance was in the early 90s in Kalam Massoul along with Marcel Ghanem, A Political Show which lasted for two years.
September 25, 2005, May Chediak was seriously injured on by a car bomb in Jounieh, Lebanon which blew in her car. The bomb which nearly killed her was a one-pound explosive, detonated as she entered her car. May left leg below the knee was blown off and her hair and clothes were set on fire. Following the amputation of her severely injured left arm May became in stable condition and soon recovered.
May Chediak was usually critical of Syria, a neighboring country to Lebanon which until April 2005 had stationed troops in Lebanon. On the day when May was nearly killed, she had hosted a talk show in which she voiced fears over increasing violence ahead of the UN report on the death of Rafic El Hariri.
The blast which hit May was one of a series of bombings in Lebanon targeting critics of Syria, in which 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, have died in similar expolosions.
On the 25th of November, May appeared on LBC Television, defiant, smiling and promising her return to the media and journalism.
May chediac travelled to France to continue her treatments and her surjeries.
On the 27th of January, 2006 May announced her candidacy for the vacated Maronite seat in Lebanon''s Baabda Aley by-election in a televised interview.
UNESCO awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to May Chediac in recognition of her courage in defending freedom of the press on the 3rd of May 2006,.
May Chidiac returned to Beirut on 12 July 2006 and went straight from the airport to be at the monastery of the Lebanese Maronite St. Charbel, in Jbeil. This was the location where she spent the day before the attack on her life.
May Chediak took part in a thanksgiving mass celebrated by the superior of the monastery Fr. Tannous Nehme.
The Israeli war on Lebanon below the next day May returned to Lebanon, May stayed in Lebanon during the war and started preparing for her return on Television in a new Political Program entitled Bikol Joraa.
Bikol Joraa is broadcasted every Tuesday and Friday on LBC Sat, LBC Europe and LBC Americas right after the Night News.
May Chediak is by far the most famous TV Personality not only in Lebanon and the Arab World, but also her name and story has circulated International Media such as CNN and BBC who followed her news from the day she was hit by the blast till she returned to Lebanon.
