List of Lebanese women writers

A

• Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet, essayist, artist, writing in English, French and Arabic
• Ezza Agha Malak, acclaimed French-language novelist, poet
• Suzanne Alaywan, poet, artist

  B

• Sahar Baassiri, since 1981: journalist, non-fiction writer
• Layla Balabakki, novelist, journalist, feminist
• Hoda Barakat, widely translated Arabic-language novelist, author of The Stone of Laughter
• Najwa Barakat, novelist

  C

• Tracy Chamoun, politician, non-fiction writer, memoirist
• Youmna Chlala, writer, artist
• Amal Clooney, Lebanese-born British lawyer, non-fiction writer

  D

• Raghida Dergham, Lebanese-American journalist

  H

• Joumana Haddad, widely translated Arabic-language poet, translator, journalist, women's rights activist
• Renée Hayek, contemporary novelist, short story writer
• Iman Humaydan, novelist, anthropologist

  J

• Nada Awar Jarrar, since 2003: novelist, author of Somewhere, home

  K

• Anbara Salam Khalidy, feminist, memoirist, translator
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata, novelist, poet

  M

• Rima Maktabi, journalist, television reporter
• Fatin al-Murr, Arabic-language short story writer, novelist

  N

• Layal Najib, photojournalist, killed during the 2006 Lebanon War
• Emily Nasrallah, novelist, journalist, short story writer, women's rights activist
• Octavia Nasr, journalist, CNN reporter

  Q

• Najwa Qassem, contemporary journalist, television reporter since 1993

  S

• Widad Sakakini, short story writer, novelist, critic
• Hanan al-Shaykh, journalist, novelist, author of Women of Sand and Myrrh
• Alawiya Sobh, novelist, magazine editor

  T

• Sahar Taha, musician, singer, journalist
• Nadia Tueni, French-language poet

  Z

• Maya Zankoul, artist, cartoonist, best selling novelist
• Zaynab Fawwaz, poet, novelist, journalist, biographer
• May Ziadeh, prolific poet, essayist, columnist, translator