DOHA - According to Qatar’s English Daily newspaper, Peninsula, Lebanese journalist May Chidiac was in Doha to participate in the Doha Debates on the 22nd of September but she also talked to the Northwestern University’s students, faculty and staff.

She revealed to the students that she may one day leave journalism to attempt to improve government from the inside. Chidiac, who is now finishing a doctoral degree in Lebanon and teaching part-time at a university there, said she would consider running for political office or accepting an appointment to a political post within the government.

On the other hand, Chidiac told the students that if they want to see change in their countries and communities, they have to get involved — and, in the case of journalists, she said, that means "going out and telling the truth". She cautioned the students against making up even the smallest "fact," for saying the truth itself will help with the democratization and unification of the Arab world. She noted that the Arab Union was created before the European Union, but unification has not yet come to the Arab world.

From whatever position, May Chidiac said she is going to continue working "to improve society". She said those who detonated her car took her arm and her leg, left burns over much of her body, left her with constant pain in her hip and more - "but," she said with a smile, "I still have my tongue, and I intend to use it to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong."