WEtel Adnan is a Syrian-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
WEzza Agha Malak is a Lebanese-born French novelist, poet, critic and essayist.
WAfifa Al Shartouni was a Lebanese author. Born in Beirut, she married Nasri Mousa and traveled with him to Brazil, where she died shortly after.
WAlexandra Avierino was a Lebanese-born Egyptian writer.
WMouna Bassili Sehnaoui is a Lebanese painter, writer and artist.
WAlexandra Chreiteh ألكسندرا شريتح is a Lebanese author known for her portrayal of the barriers faced by Arab women.
WTania Fares is a Lebanese fashion writer and philanthropist based in London with homes in Lebanon and Los Angeles, United States. She is founder and co-chair, with Sian Westerman, of BFC Fashion Trust, a charity supported by the British Fashion Council. She is also co-chair, with Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, of Fashion Trust Arabia, which supports fashion designers in the MENA region.
WJoumana Haddad is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and women's rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women for four years in a row by Arabian Business Magazine, for her cultural and social activism. She is founder of Jasad, a quarterly Arabic-language magazine specialized in the arts and literature of the body (2009–2011). Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking.
WInaya Jaber is a Lebanese writer, journalist, artist and singer. She has published nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. She lives in Beirut.
WAfifa Karam was a Lebanese-American journalist, novelist, and translator. A writer for the New York City-based Arabic-language daily newspaper Al-Hoda, Karam authored three original Arabic novels as well as a number of Arabic translations of novels from English and French. She was an advocate for women's rights in the Mahjar, or Arab diaspora, and of Arab Feminism.
WAnbara Salam Khalidi was a Lebanese feminist, translator and author, who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women.
WBarbara Abdeni Massaad is a Lebanese / American cookbook author, photographer, food consultant, TV host. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning books:Man’oushé: Inside the Street Corner Lebanese Bakery and Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry. Man’oushé has been translated into French and Mouneh into Arabic.
WRose Ghorayeb was a Lebanese writer, author, literary critic, and feminist. She was a professor of Arabic literature at the Lebanese American University and was frequently referred to as the "first female critic in Arabic literature". Regarded as a pioneer in aesthetic criticism, her literary career spanned more than 70 years and included many children stories, articles, biographies and plays.
WHanan al-Shaykh is an acclaimed Lebanese author of contemporary literature.
WMaya Zankoul is a Lebanese author, visual artist, blogger and television personality mostly known for her sarcastic cartoons and comics published in her books and her popular webcomic blog, Amalgam.
WZaynab Fawwāz (1860?–1914) was a pioneering Lebanese Shiite novelist, playwright, poet and historian of famous women. Her novel Ḥusn al-'Awāqib aw Ghādah al-Zāhirah is considered the first novel in Arabic written by a woman. Her play, al-Hawā wa-al-Wafā, is the first play written in Arabic by a woman.
WMay Elias Ziadeh was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator, who wrote different works in Arabic and in French.