Jumana Haddad Books

Joumana Haddad (6 December 1970, Beirut) is a Lebanese writer, translator and journalist. She was chosen in March 2014 as one of the 100 most influential Arab women in the world (ranked 62) by CEO Middle East magazine, due to her cultural and social activism. She is from the Salloum family, and her origins go back to the global town of Yaroun (southern Lebanon). Joumana Haddad is responsible for the cultural page of the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, and a professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She is a women's rights activist, and founder of the cultural magazine "Jasad", which specializes in body arts, sciences, and arts. From 2007 to 2011, she was the administrative coordinator of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (or the Arab Booker), and is now a member of the Prize's Board of Trustees. She has published several poetry collections that have received wide criticism in Lebanon and the Arab world, and some of them have also been translated into foreign languages. She conducted a series of interviews with a wide range of international writers, such as Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Paulo Coelho, Peter Handke and others. She is fluent in seven languages, and has translated poetry, novels and theater for a number of Arab and international writers, including the "Anthology of Modern Lebanese Poetry" in Spanish, which was issued in Spain as well as in various countries of Latin America. Joumana Haddad is a member of the Board of Trustees of the NGO Dot, which is concerned with the economic empowerment of women in rural areas. In 2006, she won the Arab Press Award. In October 2009, she won the "North-South" Prize for Poetry in Pescara, Italy. In October 2009, she was chosen as one of the 39 most prominent Arab writers under the age of thirty-nine, within the framework of the Beirut 39 project. In April 2010, she received the Blue Metropolis Prize for Arabic Literature (Al-Majidi bin Dhaher) in Montreal, Canada. In August 2010, she received the Rodolfo Gentile Prize in Porto Recanati, Italy. In November 2012, she received the Cutoli International Prize for Journalism in Sicily, Italy. In July 2013, she was appointed Honorary Ambassador for Culture and Human Rights in the Mediterranean by the Mayor of Naples, Italy. In February 2014, she received the Poetry Walk Award from the Foundation "Archicultura" in Piedmont, Italy. Her works: In Poetry: A Time for a Dream, 1995, Beirut. An invitation to a secret dinner, 1998, Dar Al-Nahar Publishing, Beirut. Hands to an Abyss, 2000, Dar Al-Nahar Publishing, Beirut. I Have Not Done Enough, 2003, an anthology of poetry, Kaf Noun House, Cairo. Odeh Lilit, 2004, Dar Al-Nahar Publishing, Beirut / 2007, Dar Afaq, Cairo. The Hidden Tiger at the Drop of the Shoulders, 2007, an anthology of poetry, Publications of Difference and Arab House of Science, Algeria. Bad Habits, 2007, an anthology of poetry, the General Authority for Cultural Palaces, Cairo. Mirrors of Transients in a Dream, 2008, Dar Al-Nahar for Publishing and the Arab House of Science, Beirut / 2010, Dar Afaq, Cairo. Al-Jim Book, 2011, Arab House of Science, Beirut. In prose: Thus Killed Scheherazade, 2010, Saqi Books, London (issued in 13 countries and 12 languages ​​in the world, including Arabic). Arabic Superman, 2012, Westbourne Press, London (original in English and translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian and Arabic). In translation: Touches of Shadow, 2002, poetry, Emmanuel Menardo, on Italian, the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut. Beirut when she was crazy, 2003, a novel, by Antonio Ferrari, on the Italian, Dar Al-Nahar Publishing, Beirut. There Where the River Burns, An Anthology of Modern Lebanese Poetry in Spanish