Wafaa Al Kilani, an icon of Arab media and a bold speaker

Wafaa Al Kilani is a prominent Egyptian media figure who is considered one of the most famous and prominent names in the Egyptian and Arab media world. Since her beginnings, she has been able to attract a wide audience with her strong presence, attractive personality, and unique performance in presenting various talk shows. She has an amazing ability to ask bold questions and discuss sensitive topics with professionalism and intelligence. This is what made her the subject of admiration, controversy, and excitement for all audiences, and also by critics, as she has achieved a very prestigious position in the media community. Through her busy professional career, Wafaa has been able to prove that she is not just an ordinary broadcaster, but rather a symbol of the strong Arab woman who inspires many on their way to success.

The origins of Wafaa Al Kilani Wafaa Hamed Al-Kilani was born in Cairo, Egypt, to a Muslim family. She is the middle sister of two sisters, the eldest named Wafiya, who studied engineering, and the youngest named Wasima, who studied economics. Her father is an Egyptian businessman who graduated from the Arabic Language Department at Al-Azhar University. He greatly encouraged her to pursue a career in the media field. Her mother was a housewife. Throughout her childhood, she was always moving between different Arab countries due to her father's work. Wafaa studied political science at the University of Benghazi in Libya and completed her postgraduate studies in psychology at the same university.

After that, Wafaa started moving towards media and television and presented many programs on a number of famous channels throughout the Arab world, but her move to MBC was a qualitative leap in the history of her media career and gave her great success and great fame in a very short time.

Her personal life Wafaa Al Kilani got married for the first time in 2008 to Tony Khalil, a Lebanese national who was her former colleague at the Arab Radio Network, where she worked in Italy. She married him in Cyprus, but this marriage received a lot of criticism because he was Christian and she was Muslim. However, she stated that he converted to Islam before they got married, as she is an Egyptian Muslim and did not marry a Christian. Wafaa gave birth to her first daughter from Tony and named her Judy in a hospital in Italy in 2009. Three years later, she gave birth to her second son, Rayan.

But in 2016 , Wafaa Al Kilani announced that she had separated from her husband after a marriage that lasted for more than eight years, as it had reached a dead end and they could not deal with each other again, and it was agreed that she would raise the children.

In 2017, she announced that she had married the Syrian actor, Tim Hassan, and their wedding ceremony took place in a small family ceremony in Cairo, but this marriage was surrounded by many different criticisms and rumors.

The career of the media figure Wafaa Al Kilani Wafaa Al Kilani, a prominent Egyptian media figure with a strong presence and an attractive personality, has been able to dominate the Arab media scene thanks to her bold and distinctive style in presenting talk shows. With her unique talent and high professionalism, the artist Wafaa Al Kilani's career in the media field has gone through several essential stations that have shaped a clear path for her career in this field. These stations are as follows:

Its launch with ART channel: This was her first start, as she applied for the Arab Radio Network test and was accepted to work at the Arab Radio Network Center in Rome. So, she traveled to Italy to work there and started presenting an artistic news program on the music channel, which was her first start. After that, she moved to the movie channel to present her first live program called Studio Al-Hawa. This was in January 1998, and this was her first live appearance, as she had no experience before that. Wafaa presented many other programs through this channel, which was a dazzling start and gained her fame and great experience.

Go to Rotana channel: Wafaa moved to Rotana Channels Network in 2005, and at this stage she felt that she needed to change and develop herself to appear stronger. On this channel, she presented the program “Ghaneeli” on Rotana Tarab Channel, then moved to Rotana Music Channel. This move was a big promotion for her, and she presented many programs, the first of which was a variety program called “Fiha Eih” which focused on stars, their fears, past, present, and the secrets that surrounded them. She also presented the program “Abwab Al-Omr” which gained great fame, but its name was changed to “Sandouk Al-Donia”. She presented many other diverse programs in which she hosted famous personalities and stars known in the Arab world, as well as religious and cultural figures such as Sheikh Jamal Al-Banna, poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, Nawal El-Saadawi, and others.

Its launch with MBC channel: Wafaa Al Kilani's work on MBC when she moved to it was like her entry into the world of fame in a very strong way, through the program "Noort" and she continued in this program for two full seasons after which she moved to MBC Egypt with the program "Qasr Al Kalam", and after that she presented on MBC Egypt the program "Al-Matha'a" which is a talk show in which she hosted a large number of celebrities from the Arab, Egyptian and Gulf countries, and this was a major reason for her fame and stardom and her strong appearance in the world of media.

Programs presented The most important programs she presented during her media career are the following:

Affiche program on ART channel in 1998. The World Box program on Rotana Music Channel in 2006. Noort program on MBC channel in 2012. The Maze program on MBC channel in 2015/2016. Takharif program on MBC channel in 2018. Wafaa Al Kilani is not just a presenter, she is a symbol of the strong Arab media personality who left an unforgettable mark in the world of Arab media. Thanks to her passion and hard work, Wafaa contributed to the development of talk media and the presentation of distinctive and bold content.

Wafaa Al Kilani, the famous Egyptian broadcaster, we cannot but express great admiration for the great role she plays in developing the Arab media, especially talk show media in the world of cinema and drama, as she worked to improve the media with distinctive content and bold dialogues. She has proven throughout her long career that success is not just a coincidence, but rather comes as a result of passion and hard work in order to provide the best, and Wafaa will remain a symbol of the strong, inspiring and influential media figure who left a clear mark in every work she presented to us.