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.
[5] 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.
[7] She was chosen by the nominating committee chaired by Queen Rania of Jordan to become one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2006.
[8][9][10] In 2005, when the first multi-candidate presidential election was held in Egypt, she ran media operations for the re-election campaign of the then President, Hosni Mubarak, at the new National Democratic Party headquarters in Heliopolis.
[6][5] On 1 March 2010, she started to host her most popular 3 days a week show, Men Qalb Masr, on Nile Life Channel.
[16] She was criticized and assaulted for her strong anti-Islamist views along with her ties to the former regime,[17] and eventually lost her show Men Qalb Masr on Nile Life in March 2011,[18] as a result of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power.
[21] The CBC had been accused of being anti-Islamist and politically biased since its inauguration in June 2011,[22] and eventually been dubbed as the channel of feloul ("remnants"), because its presenters included Lamis Elhadidy and her brother-in-law Emad el-Din Adeeb, who made media contributions to Mubarak's 2005 presidential election campaign.