Hilda KhalifaA presenter who is fluent in more than one language, her talent and charisma made millions of audience wait for her appearance in the programs she presented. Hilda was born on August 9, 1973 in the Bekaa region of Tel Chiha, but she grew up in Australia following the death of her father.
its inception
After the death of her father when she was two years old, her mother, Nouhad Ghanem, decided to emigrate with her family, i.eHildaand her brotherTony KhalifaTo Australia while the civil war was raging in Lebanon.
She leftHildaHome to join her relatives and her mother’s family in exile. Hilda grew up in Australia, but her mother worked to raise her according to eastern principles, for fear of the liberation of Western society.
Hilda grew up among males as the only girl among a group of boys from relatives and friends. She was the first to engage in childish games such as football and “basketball” in her adolescence. She used to visit Lebanon during the ceasefire, but soon returned following the tense conditions once more, so she moved between more From a school between the two countries during the war. When she reached the age of eighteen, she returned to Beirut with her family to settle permanently and her brother traveled to work in a company in Dubai.
Her beginnings and media career
I startedHilda KhalifaHer media career on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation LBC screen, in 1995, through a family friend who offered her a job as a broadcaster, linking programs following her graduation and obtaining a BA in archyde news and Marketing from Notre Dame University. She had experience in the media before that by working in some newspapers and magazines.
The thinness of her Arabic language forced her to undergo training in the basics of pronunciation and pronunciation, at the hands of Professor Antoine Kasabian for a period of three months. She succeeded and worked as a broadcaster linking programs on LBC.
The station chose it to coverCannes Film FestivalInternational, in its 1995-1996 sessions. She also presented the Miss Lebanon and Miss Lebanon concerts between 1995-1997, accompanying bothjoel throat Clemence Blond andNorma NaoumandSandra RizkIn moments of crowning the throne of beauty. She starred while presenting various programs on the small screen. She presented, accompanied by her colleague Tony Khalife, the games program “You and Your Luck” during Ramadan 1998-1999.
. programstar AcademyA qualitative leap in her career
After her experience in the live broadcast, producer Rola Saad chose her to present the Arabic version of the reality TV program Star Academy, whose idea is to present new singing talents. The program brings together students who perform exercises and receive lessons from professors from several technical fields, with the aim of developing their abilities. Their lives and interactions are broadcast live for 15 weeks in front of viewers, who are subjected to a weekly evaluation through a show concert organized every week, during which the competitor who won the lowest percentage of votes comes out. Experts from different disciplines related to performance art and star-making participated in the academy.
Hilda Khalife following star academy
In April 2014, following the end of the ninth season, she presented the “Memories of the Most Beautiful Years of Our Lives” program on the Egyptian CBC screen. In October 2017, she presented a ceremony honoring the May Chidiac media organization.
It presented the El Gouna Film Festival in its fourth session in 2020, in the presence of a large number of filmmakers in Egypt, the Middle East and the world.
she decidedHilda KhalifaThe elegant media figure has to take the fashion world seriously in 2017, so she opened her own store in Beirut called Noiro. The store specializes in women’s clothing and accessories.
her love life
She married on the twenty-third of September 2001 to the Lebanese businessman Mark Madber, with whom she had two sons.
