WAkl Awit is a Lebanese poet, critic, literary journalist and academic professor holding a Ph.D degree in modern Arabic literature. All his life, Awit has been passionate about poetry, for it has been the mean for him to express his feelings. His writings have been known to be bold and “daring”. Awit’s work, including individual poetry books and anthologies, has been published not only locally, but also translated and distributed internationally.
WAd-Diyar is an Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Beirut, Lebanon.
WMay Chidiac is a journalist and former Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Development.
WHassan Daoud is a Lebanese writer and journalist. Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family. He studied Arabic literature at university. During the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975, he worked as a journalist, a profession he has pursued ever since. He served as a correspondent for al-Hayat for 11 years. At present he edits Nawafez, the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper al-Mustaqbal.
WRaghida Dergham is a Lebanese-American journalist based in New York. She is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Beirut Institute and Columnist for The National. She served as Columnist, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, and New York Bureau Chief for the London-based Al-Hayat daily for 28 years. She is well-known internationally as a Middle Eastern female journalist, and has received awards for her career achievements.
WGeorge Eid is a multilingual Lebanese senior journalist, anchor, war correspondent, documentary producer and university lecturer, columnist known for his liberal reports and articles. He is among the young journalists who appeared in Lebanon after 2007.
WIssam Eid is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist/editor who is well known in the automotive world within the middle-east and the Arabian Gulf region. He is between the young journalists who appeared in the automotive field from very early age. His first article "VW Beetle, the Love Bug" was published in September 2005 in ArabWheels magazine. His articles ranged among ArabWheels and Telecom Review from 2005 till now.
WGhida Fakhry is a Lebanese broadcast journalist, and current affairs program presenter with TRT World, and a moderator for Doha Debates based in Washington, DC, as well as a contributor to the Huffington Post. She was a lead anchor for the global news channel Al Jazeera English at its launch in Washington DC, and was later one of the primary anchors at the network's headquarters in Doha. She was also the host of Witness, an award-winning documentary program.
WSaid Fayad born Mohammad Said Ibrahim Efendi Fayad (1921–2003) is a Lebanese poet and literary journalist from the village of Ansar in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon.
WSamir Bey Frangieh was a Lebanese politician and a leftist intellectual.
WMarcel Ghanem is a Lebanese journalist. He hosted the widely popular Lebanese political talk show "Kalam El-Nas" and now he is hosting another Lebanese political talk show "Sar el Waqt".
WKim Ghattas is a Dutch-Lebanese journalist for the BBC who has covered the US State Department. She is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, which The New York Times recognized as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020."
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.
WOunsi el-Hajj was a Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator.
WMarwan Mohammad Ali Hamadé is a Lebanese journalist and politician, who served in various capacities in different cabinets, including minister of education, minister of telecommunications, minister of economy and trade, minister of tourism, minister of health and minister for the displaced. He served as a Member of the Lebanese parliament until his resignation, on 5th August 2020, after the 2020 Beirut explosions, due to the government being "ineffective".
WZahra Hankir is a Lebanese-British journalist and editor.
WWalid Harfouch is an international television manager, producer and public figure. He is a Vice President of the international TV channel Euronews, President of the HDFashion & LifeStyle TV channel, co-founder of the Super-Nova radio station and the Paparazzi magazine.
WAli Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor a reporter who covers the Middle East in general with special emphasis on Iranian affairs. He currently serves as a senior journalist at Al Jazeera English and prior to that he was BBC’s Iran affairs correspondent. With BBC he was the first journalist to tweet about the assassination of Qassem Soleimani on January, 3rd 2020. Ali is among the first staff that launched Al Mayadeen news channel in 2012 and BBC’s Arabic Television in 2008. With Al Mayadeen, he served as the channel’s Iran bureau chief, covering the nuclear talks during the presidency of Hasan Rouhani, the nuclear deal in Vienna where he was the only Arab journalist to interview Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the talks and after the announcement on July 14, 2015. During the second decade of the 21st century, he covered the fall of Mosul and the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and produced an hour-long documentary on the group’s leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. He wrote a detailed biography of Al-Baghdadi for Al-Monitor and the Sunday Times that were referenced in several books on the subject. Until March 2012, he was Al Jazeera's war correspondent, covering the revolution in Libya and Syria, draught and famine in Somalia, and Iran’s general election. Ali has written for several international Institutes and media outlets, such as Foreign Policy, The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Middle East Institute, the Century Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, among others. In the Arab world Ali wrote for Lebanese daily As Safir, the Egyptian dailies Al-Masry Al-Youm and Al-Dustour and the Jordanian daily Al Ghad.
WOmar al-Issawi, is a journalist, director, producer, and television personality.
WGhassan bin Jiddo, is a veteran Tunisian-Lebanese journalist, activist and the director of Beirut-based pan-Arab satellite television channel, Al Mayadeen. He has been recognized in the popular press as an influential Arab personality.
WSamir Kassir was a Lebanese-Palestinian-French professor of history at Saint-Joseph University and journalist.
WViolette Safadi is a Lebanese politician, television personality and social activist. She is a former Minister of State for Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth in the cabinet led by H.E. Saad Hariri, Former Prime Minister of the Lebanese Republic.
WLiliane Landor is a Lebanese-born British journalist and broadcasting executive who works for Channel 4 as Head of Foreign News. She worked for the BBC from 1989 to mid-2016, becoming controller for languages at the BBC World Service, where she was responsible for radio and television broadcasting in 27 languages. She launched the BBC's 100 Women project in 2014. In November 2016, she was included as one of the inspirational and influential women of 2016 in the BBC's 100 Women — the theme was "defiance".
WGeorgia Makhlouf is a Lebanese writer in the French language, an editor and literary critic. She is a winner of the Prix Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Prix Ulysse.
WRima Maktabi is a Lebanese TV presenter and award-winning journalist who returned to al-Arabiya after hosting CNN's monthly program Inside the Middle East for two years and previously working at the Arab satellite channel since 2005. She was among several female Arab journalists who first became known through her reporting during the 2006 Lebanon War and who had successful careers afterward, including Maktabi and her former colleague at al-Arabiya Najwa Qassem.
WNayla Moawad is a Lebanese politician and former First Lady of Lebanon. Outside of Lebanon, she is best known as the widow of former President René Moawad, who was assassinated on 22 November 1989. Within Lebanon, she is a high-profile politician in her own right, having served as a member of the National Assembly since 1991. Following her reelection in June 2005, she was appointed to the Cabinet on 19 July as Minister for Social Affairs.
WLayal Najib, also Romanized Nagib, Nejib or Najeeb, was a Lebanese photojournalist for Agence France Press and Al Jaras 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.
WJean Obeid is a Lebanese journalist and politician, who served at different cabinet posts last of which was foreign minister of Lebanon from 2003 to 2004.
WMarc Saikali (Arabic: مارك صيقلي is a French-Lebanese journalist. He has been the Director of the international news television network France 24 since 2012.
WOkab Sakr or Oakab Saker is a Lebanese journalist and politician who lost his father before he was born during the beginning of the Lebanese civil war. Sakr won a seat in the Lebanese parliament on 7 June 2009, and one of few Lebanese Shiite Muslims that support, the mainly Sunni Muslim, 14 March movement.
WAntoine Sfeir was a Franco-Lebanese journalist.
WAhmad Faris al-Shidyaq was a scholar, writer and journalist who grew up in what is now present-day Lebanon. A Maronite Christian by birth, he later lived in major cities of the Arabic-speaking world, where he had his career. He converted to Protestantism during the nearly two decades that he lived and worked in Cairo, present-day Egypt, from 1825 to 1848. He also spent time on the island of Malta. Participating in an Arabic translation of the Bible in Great Britain that was published in 1857, Faris lived and worked there for 7 years, becoming a British citizen. He next moved to Paris, France, for two years in the early 1850s, where he wrote and published some of his most important work.
WKazem El-Solh was a Lebanese politician, a diplomat and the founder of a political party and a newspaper. He was a member of parliament in Lebanon and served as the country's ambassador to Iraq. He hails from a prominent Sunni Muslim family which gave Lebanon four prime ministers, his brother Takieddine Solh, as well as Riad Solh, Sami Solh and Rachid Solh. The Solh family is originally from the ancient port city of Sidon in southern Lebanon.
WSaleem Takla was the founder of Al-Ahram with his brother Beshara Takla.
WLiliane Tannoury is a senior Lebanese TV presenter. She works as a sports anchor for Al Arabiya TV in Dubai.
WGhassan Tueni was a veteran Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed An Nahar, one of the Arab World's leading newspapers. He was often referred to as the "Dean of Lebanese Journalism".
WJurji Zaydan was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his 23 historical novels.
WAhmad Ali El Zein is a Lebanese novelist, documentary film maker and television journalist. He is best known for his trilogy of novels, The Edge of Oblivion (2007), Suhbat al-Tayer (2010) and Barid al-Ghouroub (2014). He lives between Europe and the Middle East, where he shoots Rawafed, a series of documentaries on Arab intellectuals and artists broadcast on Al Arabiya News Channel
WZeina Soufan is a Lebanese journalist and television host based in Dubai. Soufan is senior business editor at Dubai Media Incorporated and host of "Money Map" show on Dubai TV. She is also an independent author and digital content creator.