Léa Salamé

Hala Léa Salamé known as Léa Salamé born 27 October 1979 is a Lebaneseborn French journalist Hala Léa Salamé is the daughter of Ghassan Salamé former Lebanese Minister of Culture and former special advisor to UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan her mother Mary Boghossian of Armenian descent is the sister of diamond dealers Jean and Albert Boghossian She escaped war in Lebanon with her family settled in Paris at age 5 and obtained French nationality at age 11 Léa Salamé studied law at PanthéonAssas University and Sciences Po She spent a year at New York University where she was injured in the September 11 attacks Salamé began her career as an intern on La Chaîne parlementaire with JeanPierre Elkabbach In September 2006 she started working for newly created French international news TV channel France 24 Salamé joined iTélé in late 2010 and hosted a political show in the context of the 2012 French presidential election Starting in September 2011 she hosted the evening news with Marc Fauvelle and in September 2012 a political debate programme The next year she hosted Ça se dispute with Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Domenach as commentators In August 2014 Salamé succeeded Natacha Polony in the duo of commentators which she formed with Aymeric Caron then with Yann Moix in Laurent Ruquiers show On nest pas couché aired on France 2 In May 2016 she announced that she would leave to host a political show with David Pujadas starting in September 2016 in the context of the 2017 French presidential election Since August 2014 Salamé has hosted the 750 am interview in France Inters morning show Since December 2015 she has also conducted highprofile interviews in the French edition of GQ On 14 April 2016 as she interviewed President François Hollande with David Pujadas in the programme Dialogues citoyens on France 2 Léa Salamé replied to President Hollande who was making a comment on refugees Are you joking which triggered many reactions on social media With Les Arènes Salamé published her first book Strong Women a series of 12 intimate interviews around female power originally conducted as a podcast in the summer of 2019 in which she revealed her pantheon of femininity In the summer of 2019 she hosted a podcast called Powerful Women at France Inter revolving around female individuality in relation to power and femininity as seen in the fields of publishing literature film business and sports In the book Salamé revealed her role models Leïla Slimani Chloé Bertolus Christiane Taubira Laure Adler Élisabeth Badinter Béatrice Dalle Nathalie KosciuskoMorizet Bettina Rheims Sophie De Closets Amélie Mauresmo Anne Méaux and the comediennes of Delphine Horvilleur Source Article Léa Salamé from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30