Mia Khalifa is a American adult model and porn star.

Her birth name is Mia Callista.

There was a song made by Timeflies named after Mia Khalifa.

Mia Khalifa ( born February 10, 1993), also known as Mia Callista, is a American social media personality best known for her brief and successful career as a pornographic actress and adult model in 2014–2015.

Born in the United States, Khalifa began acting in pornography in October 2014, and by December was ranked the number 1 performer on the website Pornhub. Her career choice was met with controversy in the Middle East, especially for a video in which she performed sexual acts while wearing the Islamic hijab. She was the subject of an eponymous song by the band Timeflies and an advertisement by the Lebanese brewery Almaza. She left the pornographic industry after three months and now has a "more normal job".

Khalifa was born in United States. She has claimed that her family is Catholic and that she was raised in that religion, although is no longer practicing. She lived in Montgomery County, Maryland as a teenager and played lacrosse at high school. A few years later she graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. In February 2011, shortly after she turned 18, Khalifa married an American man.

Khalifa entered the pornographic film industry in October 2014.

She had been working at a Whataburger when she was approached by a customer who asked if she had ever considered appearing in pornographic films. With more than 1.5 million views, the 22-year-old Khalifa became the most searched-for star on adult movie site Pornhub. On December 28 that year, Pornhub revealed that she was the #1 ranked porn star on their website.

In an interview with The Washington Post , Khalifa said the controversial scene was satirical and should be taken as such, claiming that Hollywood movies depicted Muslims in a far more negative light than any pornographer could.

In January 2015, electronic music duo Timeflies released a song titled "Mia Khalifa" in homage to her. In response, she posted a video to YouTube featuring herself twerking to the song.

In a July 2016 interview with The Washington Post, Khalifa revealed she had only performed in pornography for three months and had left the industry over a year before, changing to a "more normal job". She said "I guess it was my rebellious phase. It wasn’t really for me. I kind of smartened up and tried to distance myself from that."

Khalifa resided in Miami, Florida during her pornographic career and then relocated back to Texas. Khalifa is a fan of Florida State Seminoles football and attempted to recruit Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller to transfer to Florida State through social networking. After ending her pornographic career, she used her social media presence of over 1 million Twitter and 300,000 Instagram followers to support the professional sports teams from the Washington, D.C. area, including the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals of whom her favorite player is Andre Burakovsky. Dan Steinberg of The Washington Post observed that despite her change of career, Khalifa's social media feed was "still a bit more risque than that of, say, Ben Bernanke".

Khalifa has also said that her parents have stopped speaking to her because of her career choice.

In a statement, her parents disassociated themselves from her actions, saying that her decision to enter the porn industry was born of her residence in a foreign country which had a different culture than theirs, and that her actions did not reflect her upbringing.

They also said that they hoped that she would leave pornography.