Maria Maalouf

[4] In March 2017, Maalouf garnered attention after publicly calling on Israel to murder Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah[5] on her Twitter account.

After finishing her secondary studies at the Congregation of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, she joined the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lebanese University.

[clarification needed] She is the owner of Dar Al Khaleej Printing and Publishing, which publishes The Gulf Mirror (Meraat Al Khalij), an economic, social and cultural magazine, as well as Banko, a magazine concerned with banks and other media and advertising activities.

Moreover, she hosted President Amin Gemayel and former Lebanese Minister of Justice Ibrahim Najjar on her program Lel-Rouwad Faqat.

The program also hosted many political and economic figures from the United Arab Emirates, as well as the Governor of the state of Maryland, the Mayor of Baltimore, the Vice President of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, Dr. Tariq al-Hashimi, and former Prime Minister of Iraq, Dr. Ayad Allawi.