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List Of Lebanese Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Lebanon or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Etel Adnan (1925–2021), Lebanese-American poet, essayist, artist, writing in English, French and Arabic * Ezza Agha Malak (born 1942), acclaimed French-language novelist, poet * Suzanne Alaywan (born 1974), poet, artist B *Sahar Baassiri, since 1981: journalist, non-fiction writer *Layla Balabakki (born 1936), novelist, journalist, feminist *Hoda Barakat (born 1952), widely translated Arabic-language novelist, author of ''The Stone of Laughter'' *Najwa Barakat (born 1966), novelist C *Tracy Chamoun (born 1962), politician, non-fiction writer, memoirist * Youmna Chlala, writer, artist * Amal Clooney (born 1978), Lebanese-born British lawyer, non-fiction writer D *Raghida Dergham (born 1953), Lebanese-American journalist F *Emily Fares Ibrahim (born 1914), Lebanese-American writer, poet and feminist *Zaynab Fawwaz (1860–1914), poet, novelist, journalist, bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lies to its west across the Mediterranean Sea; its location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has contributed to its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious diversity. It is part of the Levant region of the Middle East. Lebanon is home to roughly six million people and covers an area of , making it the second smallest country in continental Asia. The official language of the state is Arabic, while French is also formally recognized; the Lebanese dialect of Arabic is used alongside Modern Standard Arabic throughout the country. The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back over 7000 years, predating recorded history. Modern-day Lebanon was home to the Phoenicians, a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nimat Hamoush
Nimat Hamoush (نعمت الحاموش) is a Lebanese writer and storyteller that has published multiple novels and collections of short stories through ''Al Dar Al Arabia'' publishing and distribution. One of her famous novels is "The Man and The Monster" where she talked about many matters such as, writing, men, women, and the relationship between the three of them. She also has published “''Khawater Joroh''” which is an assemblage of short stories that included a number of poems by the Hamoush. As well as "Mirsah Fi Alraml" which was published by the same publishing company. Her most famous novel was "My Angel" which was published in 2019 and has around 129 pages. Career "''The Man and the Monster''": Published in 2014 with 189 pages. The novel was written about writing in the battle with life. As the woman tries to reclaim her position while taking control over the man using writing. Nimat Hamoush wrote this novel in a way of tangling poetic views and narrative valu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Nasrallah
Emily Daoud Nasrallah ( ar, إيميلي داود نصر الله) ('' née'' Abi Rached; 6 July 1931 – 13 March 2018) was a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. She graduated from the Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University) with an associate degree in arts in 1956. Two years later, she obtained a BA in education and literature from the American University of Beirut. She published her first novel "Birds of September" in 1962; the book was instantly acclaimed, and won three Arabic literary prizes. "Flight Against Time" was Nasrallah's first novel to be translated into English, published by the Canada-based Ragweed Press. She became a prolific writer, publishing many novels, children's stories, and short story collections, touching on themes such as family, village life, war, emigration, and women's rights. The latter was a subject she has maintained support for throughout her life. Biography Early life Emily Daoud Abi Rached was born in the sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Lebanon War
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Levanon HaShniya''), was a 34-day war, military conflict in Lebanon, Northern Israel and the Golan Heights. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon. Due to unprecedented Iranian military support to Hezbollah before and during the war, some consider it the first round of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, rather than a continuation of the Arab–Israeli conflict. The conflict was precipitated by the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid. On 12 July 2006, Hezbolla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layal Najib
Layal Najib, also Romanized Nagib, Nejib or Najeeb, ( ar, ليال نجيب; died 23 July 2006) was a Lebanese photojournalist for Agence France Press and ''Al Jaras'' (Translated: The Bell) and is the first journalist killed during the 2006 Lebanon War. She was also among several female journalists who were establishing their reputations as reporters during the war, such as Rima Maktabi and Najwa Qassem. Najib is one of seven journalists to have been killed since the end of civil war in 1990. Najib's death follows behind that of female journalist Atwar Bahjat who was killed while covering the Iraq War. Background The 2006 war was a turning point for female reporters' ability to report at the front lines alongside male reporters. The female journalists of this generation had either lived or practiced journalism during the Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990) but news organizations did not provide them with any training. Najib's death and her job as a photojournalist was mentioned along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Mazloum
Diane Mazloum (born 1980) is a French- Lebanese writer. Her novels are set against the history or present in Lebanon. Life and education Diane Mazloum was born in 1980, in Paris, to Lebanese parents who fled from the country because of the Lebanese Civil War. She grew up in Rome and studied astrophysics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, then moved to Lebanon to study art and design at the American University of Beirut. Later, Mazloum returned to Paris, but she was in Beirut during the 2020 explosion. Career Mazloum debuted in 2009 with a graphic novel ''Nucleus en plein cœur de Beyrouth City''. Five years later, she published her first novel ''Beyrouth, la nuit''. Her next novel, ''L’âge d’or'', was awarded the Prix Amic by the Académie Française and the Prix France-Liban, while ''Une piscine dans le désert'' (2020) was nominated for Prix Renaudot, Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatin Al-Murr
Faten el-Murr (Arabic: فاتن المرّ; born 1969) is a Lebanese academic and writer. She is a holder of a doctorate degree, she is currently a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University in Zahle. Works Her first work of fiction was published in 1999, a collection of short stories called ''Bayn intizarayn'' (''Between Two Periods of Waiting''). She has since written two novels, ''The Time After'' and ''Common Sins''. The latter was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, and longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic ... in 2011. References 1969 births Lebanese novelists Lebanese women short story writers Lebanese short story writers Lebanese women writers Academic staff of Lebanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Massabki
Jacqueline Massabki was a Lebanese writer and lawyer born in Beirut, Lebanon. She died there on 1 September 2015. Life and work Jacqueline Massabki was by turns a lawyer and a journalist. She worked as a municipal employee while she studied law at the university. After graduation, she did an internship with Henri Jalkh and Roger Najjar. She married Antoine Boulos Abi Ghosn. Advocate She was inspired to become an advocate as a young girl, according to an interview she gave to Henoud.I only dreamed of one thing, to do this job. When I was 12 years old, I had seen a movie with Daniele Darrieux, she was wearing the ourt robes Maybe that's it, I don't know! Massabki specialized in banking and commercial law. In 1965, she ran for election to the council of the Lebanese Bar Association and was the first woman to compete with her male colleagues and win. There she felt she could "finally give voice to a woman, to give her place and a role in this profession where they were still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rima Maktabi
Rima, also known as Rima the Jungle Girl, is the fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest''. In it, Rima, a primitive girl of the shrinking rain forest of South America, meets Abel, a political fugitive. A film adaptation of '' Green Mansions'' was made in 1959 starring Audrey Hepburn. In 1974, the character was adapted into the comic book ''Rima the Jungle Girl'', published by DC Comics. Though ''Rima the Jungle Girl'' ceased publication in 1975, the comic book version of Rima appeared in several episodes of Hanna-Barbera's popular Saturday morning cartoon series, ''The All-New Super Friends Hour'', between 1977 and 1980. Novel Like her literary cousins Tarzan and Mowgli, Rima sprang from an Edwardian adventure novel; in her case, '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest'', by W. H. Hudson, published in 1904. Hudson was an Argentine-British naturalist who wrote many classic books about the ecology of Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer. Early life Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a soldier that spoke French and a mother that was a peasant. She is the older sister of the author May Menassa. In 1959, she won the Miss Beirut Pageant. To escape the war in Lebanon she immigrated to France and married French doctor Jean Ghata, son of Turkish calligrapher Rikkat Kunt and her second husband Fahreddin Ghata. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems. Her daughter Yasmine Ghata is also a renowned writer. Career Venus Khoury-Ghata undertook literary studies at L'École Supérieur Des Lettres de Beirut. She published her first literary collection in 1966 and 1967 "''Terres Stagnantes"'', "''Chez Seghers''", and then in 1971 she published her first novel, "''Les Inadaptés''". In 2009, she received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the French Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Khattar
Tara Khattar (; born 1992) is a Lebanese chef, who was the first person from a Middle Eastern country to compete on '' Top Chef France.'' She also won the competition ''Chopped'' on Food Network on two occasions. Career Born in Lebanon, Khattar's grandmothers taught her how to cook as a child. One grandmother was from Aleppo, the other one from Achrafieh; they were both differently influenced by the cuisines of their home regions. She studied for a BA in International Management of Culinary Arts at the Institut Paul Bocuse, graduating in 2013. She subsequently worked at l’Atelier de Joël Robuchon Saint-Germain in Paris. She then moved to New York to study for an MA in Food Studies at New York University. In 2018 she was the first person from the Middle East to participate in the television programme '' Top Chef France,'' when she joined the show. This led to her describing her style of cookery as 'progressive Lebanese'. She subsequently won the competition ''Chopped C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anbara Salam Khalidy
Anbara Salam Khalidi () (4 August 1897–May 1986) was a Lebanese feminist, translator and author, who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women. Early life and education Khalidi was born into an eminent Lebanese family in Beirut in 1897. She was the daughter of Salim Ali Salam, a deputy in the Ottoman parliament and a merchant, and her mother was a member of the leading families, namely the Barbir and Aghars. Her brother Saeb Salam served as the prime minister. Two of her brothers also held cabinet posts. One of her sisters was the wife of Rashid Karami, Lebanese prime minister. In 1913 during the First Arab Congress in Paris Khalidi, along with two other women, sent a telegram to the congress. This telegram was the first message that was read aloud. She received a modern education and learned French. She and her siblings attended the Anglican Syrian College in Ras Beirut, which is the predecessor of the American University of Beirut. From 1925 to 1927 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
