French President Jacques Chirac has awarded LBCI anchorwoman May Chidiac the knighthood in the Legion of Honor order at the Elysee Palace.

Alf Mabrouk ya May, you honestly deserve it more than anyone.

May lost an arm and a leg from a bomb placed under her car in September 2005 and underwent several operations in Lebanon and in France.

“A year later and with courage she overcame her destiny and returned to her job as a journalist and published a book,” Chirac said Thursday.