{"id":62992,"date":"2025-11-15T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabmediaagency.com\/?p=62992"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:23:31","slug":"mervat-el-meligi-i-strive-to-be-the-true-voice-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabmediaagency.com\/?p=62992","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMervat El-Meligi: I strive to be the true voice of the people\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cairo \u2013 Maii Abdo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how Mervat El-Meligi\u2019s journey takes shape: early passion, deep responsibility, and a voice that consistently chooses to stand with the people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mervat El-Meligi was never one of those who chase the spotlight; she is one of the faces carved by genuine effort and the unseen labor behind the camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I met her at the Journalists\u2019 Syndicate, I did not encounter the firm Extra News anchor viewers know on air, but rather a candid woman recalling the story of a little girl who once dreamed of a camera she did not know how to reach\u2014until she carved her own path through a career that began at Maspero and led her to one of Egypt\u2019s most prominent television screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mervat speaks of her childhood as if it were the earliest frame of the person she is today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was lively, sharp, and impossible to overlook\u2014traits that made her family suggest she would make a good lawyer. But her heart was drawn to the microphone, the screen, and the idea of being \u201ca voice.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had no clear path into the field. After graduating from the Faculty of Al-Alsun at Ain Shams University\u2014English and German departments\u2014she began her career as a translator at the Ministry of Defense from 2002 to 2005, including political and military translation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She excelled, but a quiet certainty inside her whispered: translation was a station, not a destination.The moment that altered her path came unexpectedly, the kind of moment that shifts the course of an entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She met former Minister of Information Anas El-Feki, who looked at her CV and laughed: \u201cThis is a political-translation r\u00e9sum\u00e9,\u201d he said, before recommending that she join television as a news presenter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, at Nile News, the journey she never anticipated began. She did not enter as an anchor; she started as an editor and translator, then field reporter, then news presenter\u2014step by step, under the roof of Maspero, which she calls a true \u201cschool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaspero teaches you self-reliance,\u201d she says. \u201cYou face difficult situations that you must resolve on the spot\u2026 Real confidence on air comes from those experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Mervat, appearance was never enough; knowledge was the foundation. She does not chase trends or depend on social media, insisting that any presenter who does not know the source of their information cannot ask a single meaningful question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To her, confidence on air is not a tone of voice\u2014it is understanding. She therefore built her craft from the ground up: information, verification, structure, questioning, and presence. It is this rigor that later positioned her among Egypt\u2019s leading interview hosts, not merely a newsreader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her years at Maspero, she was consistently on the frontlines of major events. She covered nearly all Arab summits hosted in Egypt and followed, moment by moment, the events of the revolution and the closure of Tahrir Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet one image remains etched in her memory: the \u201cTrial of the Century\u201d of former President Hosni Mubarak. \u201cThat day never leaves my mind,\u201d she says, her voice instinctively softening with the recollection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, she moved into economic journalism and unexpectedly fell in love with it\u2014discovering that economics demands a calm mind and an ability to simplify complex ideas. She excelled, especially through one of her strongest programs, \u201cHamzet Wasl,\u201d where she felt closest to public sentiment via social media and in direct contact with viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went on to present several programs on Nile News\u2014\u201cNile Index\u201d (an economic program), \u201cA New Morning,\u201d and \u201cArts\u201d\u2014before being selected for the launch team of Channel One HD, appearing on its prime newscasts at 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There she gained a different kind of experience\u2014one of visual professionalism, speed, and commanding presence.Then came the leap she describes as her \u201centry into true professionalism\u201d: Extra News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A screen with a faster rhythm, higher competition, and standards that demand every presenter\u2019s best version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cExtra News is a bright place,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone there is talented\u2026 so you must work on yourself every single day and prove your presence amid strong competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She used social media wisely\u2014not for showmanship, but as a professional tool that strengthened her connection to viewers, while never treating it as a source of information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She always repeats: \u201cYou can\u2019t take your sources from social media.\u201dToday, Mervat is closely associated with her signature program, \u201cParliament Street.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She loves this genre of journalism because it sits at the intersection of information, politics, and public interest. Guests arrive representing their parties and defending their positions\u2014while she arrives carrying the responsibility of representing the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With unwavering clarity, she says: \u201cI belong to Egypt\u2026 not to any party.\u201dThe sentence perfectly captures her professional identity: firm loyalty to the citizen\u2019s right to understand.Beyond the screen, her life extends into a softer, warmer space. She credits her mother as her primary source of support\u2014\u201cthe first person whose opinion I wait for after any broadcast.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in her free time, she devotes herself to an entirely different passion: fashion design. She designs and sews her own dresses with noticeable skill and creativity.She has recently attended major events such as the Grand Ball at Abdeen Palace and the Opera Gala at the New Administrative Capital\u2014moments she sees as reflections of the \u201cnew Egypt\u201d she is keen to help present to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n