The Heavens Will Wait
Publisher
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Florent Massot
Parution date
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EAN
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9782916546018
Number of pages
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249
Description
***Translation sample available***
May Chidiac, at the age of 25, became an anchor of Lebanon’s first prime-time television news program. She was elegant, worldly, politically acute, and fiercely independent—often outspoken in a country much divided by controversy. Then, on September 25, 2005, she was the victim of a terrorist attack, losing an arm and a leg and requiring 21 operations and months of rehabilitation in Paris. Her testimony is harrowing . . . but her resilience is a great lesson in optimism and courage.
In The Heavens Will Wait, May Chidiac tells us all about this painful period of her life and chronicles her against-the-odds emotional and physical recovery. She talks too of her extraordinary childhood and how it prepared her for the public stage and to react with strength after the attack. Chidiac grew up during the war, started work at 21 as a radio journalist, and soon was tapped for television by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), a channel that quickly became a reference point for the Arab world.
Chidiac was renowned for her anti-Syrian opinions and expressed, on camera, her support for the pacific revolution set off by the attack and death of the prime minister, Rafic Hariri. Although no woman had as yet been a target of a terrorist attack in Lebanon, when two of her colleagues were killed, she questioned whether her time had come. In Le ciel attendra, she describes her fear, her desire to continue . . . and the attack that could have killed her and did cause terrible harm. Though she was shaken to her very core, coming to terms with the painful experience made her stronger and more determined than ever. This book shows why she has become a heroine in Lebanon and a strong symbol for the international community.
Author
May Chidiac : May Chidiac has been the news anchor for LBC for 25 years and presents two other popular shows on Sundays (Nahakoum Saïd and Bonjour).
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