Lina Zahr Eddine ( ar, لينا زهر الدين) is a Lebanese news presenter and talk show host.

Early life

Lina was born on 12 July 1975 in

Mays al Jabal Meiss Ej Jabal ( ar, ميس الجبل ) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in Lebanon. Name According to E. H. Palmer, the name ''Meis'' comes from the name of a tree. Location The municipality of Meiss Ej Jabal is located in the Kaz ...

Nabatieh Governorate Nabatieh Governorate ( ar, محافظة النبطية, ') is one of the nine governorates of Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in West ...

, after the beginning of the

Lebanese civil war The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

to Shia family. She attended the local Fakhreddine school in

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

through High School and then got her college degree in Media and Documentation from the

Lebanese University The Lebanese University (LU) (, ) is the only public university in Beirut, Lebanon. It is ranked #701–750 worldwide in terms of education. The creation of the Lebanese University was an idea first mentioned in the speech of the former Minist ...

Career

Lina started her career in early 1997. She worked in NBN, a Lebanese TV as a reporter & radio news presenter. In 2002, she moved to

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

news TV in Doha,

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

. In June 2012, she began to work in

Al Mayadeen Al Mayadeen (Arabic: الميادين; The Plazas) is a pan-Arabist satellite news television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Its programming is predominantly news. It has news reporters in most Arab countries. In the pan-Ara ...

, a pan-Arab television channel in

. She resigned on 24 November 2019, during the

2019–20 Lebanese protests The 17 October Protests, commonly referred to as the 17 October Revolution () is a series of civil protests taking place in Lebanon. These national protests were triggered by planned taxes on gasoline, tobacco, and VoIP calls on applications s ...

Personal life

Lina was married to a Lebanese businessman, before she got divorced with two kids.

References

1975 births Living people Lebanese women journalists Lebanese Shia Muslims People from Marjeyoun District Lebanese University alumni Al Jazeera people {{Lebanon-bio-stub