Lamis Elhadidy
| Lamis Elhadidy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 8, 1966 Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | American University in Cairo |
| Spouse(s) | Amr Adib (m. 1999) |
| Children | Nur al-Din (b. 1999) |
Lamis Ali Mohamed Ali Elhadidy (Arabic: لميس علي محمد علي الحديدي) is an Egyptian journalist and broadcast presenter. She is also the chief executive officer of the Al Alam Al Youm newspaper, and a weekly columnist in the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Lamis Elhadidy was born on 8 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. Later she continued her studies at AUC's Kamal Adham Center and received a master's degree in broadcast journalism with highest honors in 1991.
In 1987, Elhadidy started working as a desk producer for American TV network NBC in its Cairo bureau. She moved on to the New York Times Cairo office in 1989, writing articles as a stringer for over three years. During that time, she started writing in Arabic in Sabah El Kheir Ya Misr.
In 1991, she established together with Emad El-Din Adeeb a first Egyptian business newspaper called Al Alam Al Youm, where she worked as chief correspondent. Since 2005, she became the chief executive officer of its weekly edition.
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