Haifa Charbel
Haifa Charbel is a Lebanese television presenter, executive producer, and documentary maker. She creates travel documentaries and conducts high-profile interviews with Lebanese businesspeople and political figures. She hosts and produces Soufaraa al Arez (Cedar Ambassadors), a talk show about the Lebanese diaspora, which started in 2017 and has won awards.
In 2015 she founded True Story Productions and serves as its CEO. The company provides TV and film production services as well as entertainment business consultancy, and it expanded to Europe with an office in the UK in 2020.
Charbel was born in Jezzine, southern Lebanon, to Laure and Elias Charbel. She moved to Beirut to study, earning a BA in Human Resources Management and an MBA in Business Management. In 2016 she was elected to the Jezzine municipal council on the Nehna La Jezzine list, becoming the youngest woman to win a seat.
Her work with Cedar Ambassadors includes traveling to diaspora hubs to interview expatriate guests. In 2019 the show partnered with Forbes Middle East to highlight influential regional leaders. After travel restrictions in late 2019 and 2020, she spent time in Australia and her Beirut office was damaged by the 2020 Beirut explosion. Following the disaster, she founded a humanitarian NGO also called Cedar Ambassadors to focus on human capital development. In 2021 she released a moving episode with the Abdallah family, who forgave a drunk driver. Her show also highlights women entrepreneurs and advocates for women’s empowerment.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 03:37 (CET).