Others, like British-Lebanese author Nasri Atallah, came to her defense. “The moral indignation about Mia Khalifa, presumably the first Lebanese porn star, is wrong for two reasons,” he wrote on . “First and foremost, as a woman, she is free to do as she pleases with her body. Secondly, as a sentient human being with agency, who lives halfway across the world, she is in charge of her own life and owes absolutely nothing to the country where she happened to be born. There is this odd perception that being Lebanese is a vocation and a duty first and that your personal life comes second.”
Khalifa says she doesn’t plan on staying in porn forever: “It’s not something I’d make a career out of, but I’ll ride it out ’til I can’t do it anymore.” Until then, she just wishes the media would leave her family alone. Asked if her career was worth losing her family, she said she wasn’t sure. “I can’t say it’s worth it,” she says. “But I can’t self-pity, because I consciously made this decision myself.”
Originally from Lebanon, Mia Khalifa is undoubtedly the most popular Arab adult video performer of all time. With a beyond impressive portfolio of videos across many different genres and contracts with all the major American porn networks, she has since risen to such prominence that she was able to create and maintain her own massively popular porn production, named simply Mia Khalifa. A former number one on Pornhub in 2018, she has since retired from the porn industry to follow other pursuits and focus on being an internet personality, but her videos live on, continuing to rack in massive amounts of money to the companies that signed her on despite her no longer being an active performer.
Mia Khalifa is one of the world’s highest-ranking porn stars, but she didn’t get paid as much as you’d expect.



















