Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese award-winning author, poet, journalist and public speaker. She’s a renowned activist for equality, freedom of expression and human rights. She’s been repeatedly selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business magazine, for her cultural and social activism. After a career in written journalism for more than 20 years, as the cultural editor of An Nahar newspaper, she now hosts a TV show on human rights and freedom of expression on Al Horra.
Haddad’s books have been translated into more than 20 languages and published all around the world. They include The Return of Lilith, I Killed Scheherazade, Superman is an Arab, and the play Kafas (Cages), performed with great success both in Beirut and Hollywood. Her latest and fifteenth work is a novel entitled The Seamstress' Daughter, inspired by the life of her Armenian grandmother.