Zaven Kouyoumdjian
Zaven Kouyoumdjian was born in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon on May 15th, 1970 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 53, Zaven Kouyoumdjian biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Zaven is married to Laury Haytayan and has two sons who were born in 2003 and 2007.
Early years
Zaven was born in Beirut on May 15, 1970 to Ardashes Kouyoumdjian and Souad Kaadi. He received his primary and secondary education at Demerjian School and the Armenian Evangelical College in Beirut, both at the AGBU.
Education
Zaven holds a master's degree in Communication Arts, a specialization concerned with media and media, from Notre Dame University (NDU) in Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon. He earned his bachelor's degree in Communication Arts from Lebanese American University in Beirut.
Career
In 1992, he joined Télé Liban as a news reporter and late-night news anchor. Soon after, he became Télé Liban's face for news via its advertising campaign Aban An Jad by Saatchi & Saatchi. He had been assigned as TL's news reporter at the Presidential Palace in Baabda in 1994. In 1995, he started "5/7," his first weekly talk show, and his investigative journalism made him a household name in Lebanon. Zaven was making news around the show's first year, including the toxic wastes scandal, Mustafa Dirani's kidnapping, and the Lebanese Forces' ban. In the 1990s, "5/7" became Télé Liban's longest-running talk show, receiving the highest rating for a single talk show episode in 1996.
Zaven rose to fame as he brought the gruesome footage of the Israeli massacres in the Qana and Mansouri villages to global attention during his reporting of the Israeli Operation Grapes of Wrath offensive on South Lebanon in 1996.
The pro-Syrian government in 1999 and during the Syrian state of Lebanon under Selim Hoss's control barred 5/7 from broadcasting on Télé Liban. Zaven shaved his head as a sign of rebellion.
Zaven went to Future Television, a television broadcasting network owned by former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, seven months later. According to Pan-Arab IPTV network Talfazat-ART, he created Siré Wenfatahit, which quickly became the Middle East's highest-rated talk show. Zaven encouraged four HIV-positive individuals to attend his show about life after AIDS and discrimination in 2004. This was the first time HIV-positive people appeared on any Arab channel without covering their faces. In 2004, he published Lebanon Shot Twice, his first book. The Nisrine Jaber Book Club, inspired by Oprah Winfrey, is the first Arab television book club.
Zaven's show has often served as a platform for political and social activism. "The host of a Future TV episode Sireh w'infatahit, Zaven Kouyoumdjian, invited opposition and Hizbolla members to the studio to air their views and find a common ground," Sireh w'infatahit's 2005.
Zaven was named one of the Middle East's Most Influential People in 2005 by Newsweek magazine in 2005.
In 2006, Zaven launched Ana Ala'an (meaning Me Now), a new series. The series was designed to give Arab youth the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings on television using their personal camera. This series is considered to be the first acknowledgement of the growing internet presence of youth and the potential of youth to achieve change. In a special series of countdown episodes, Zaven's 13-year-long show Sire Wenfatahit came to an end on July 15, 2012.
Zaven started his show AalAkid on Future TV in August 2012, a film co-production between director Bassem Christo and French producer Péri Cochin, as part of their production house Periba. On TMC, the show was a Lebanese translation of Sans aucun doute, which was seen daily by Julien Courbet. Critics and viewers alike greeted AalAkid's as it reshaped the Lebanese social talk show experience and forged new foundations for conflict resolution through media. The show gained a lot of attention on Lebanese television as a new way to tackle social problems.
In 2012, Zaven published his second book with Dr. Dolly Habbal, Witness on Society at the Beirut Book Fair. Academia, a publisher.
Zaven launched his talk show Bala Toul Sire in October 2014, with episodes about life, culture, and people in the style of a live weekly newspaper, with columns ranging from current headlines or unreported margins.
The station halted all production activities due to financial difficulties in September 2019, just before his 20th anniversary on Future TV, and Zaven's program Bala Toul Sire was cancelled. The last episode of the series was broadcast on August 9, 2019, and it featured Yamli, Habib Haddad, the show's producer.
Zaven hosted the morning show of Lebanon's top Sawt Kl Lebnan Radio station after the Beirut blast in 2020. In the middle of the county's unfolding economic and political crisis, the show continues to evoke its listeners' agony and insecurity.
Zaven hosted Nafas Jdeed (New Spirit), an online political talk show that gives emerging and young political protesters an independent and friendly platform in 2021. DRI, a Berlin-based international NGO, has initiated and produced the event.
Zaven joined The Munathara Initiative as the host of Lebanese's Townhall, a debate talkshow that brings together key national broadcasters to commit to public interest journalism in November 2021. The exhibition aims to foster positive public discourse throughout the Arabic-speaking world.