Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world.
Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī, better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām, was an Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents. He is best known in literature by his 9th-century compilation of early poems known as the Hamasah, considered one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic literature ever assembled. Hamasah contained 10 books of poems, with 884 poems in total.
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima, which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.
Zakaria Tamer, also called Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer.
Badr Shakir al Sayyab was a leading Iraqi poet, well known throughout the Arab world and one of the most influential Arab poets of all time. His works have been translated in more than 10 languages including English, Persian, Somali and Urdu.
Saad Abdulrahman Albazei is a Saudi intellectual who is known for his critiques of Arabic culture and comparative studies that map the East-West cultural and literary relations.
Nouzad Ja'adan, is a Syrian poet and writer.
The Manhae Prize is a series of awards in the following categories: Peace, Social Service, Academic Excellence, Art, Literature, and Buddhist Missionary Work awarded by The Society for the Promotion and Practice of Manhae's Thoughts in memory of Buddhist reformer and anti-Japanese independence activist Han Yong-un (1879–1944).
Qassim Haddad is a Bahraini poet, particularly notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. His poems have been translated in several languages including German, English and French.
Ahmed Morsi is an artist, art critic and poet with a career that spans seven decades of creative output. In the 1950s, he simultaneously studied literature at Alexandria University and painting at the studio of Silvio Becchi, the son of Italian master Otorino Becchi. In 1974, Morsi moved to New York City, where he continues to paint, write and critique from his Manhattan home. His work is in public collections including the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art, the Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Foundation, Barjeel Art Foundation and in various notable private collections in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, France, England and the United States. Visions of a fictive, invented Alexandria run through most of Morsi's work and his practice offers a powerful and mystical meditation on remembrance and the passage of time. His body of work bears witness to the artist's life as an Alexandrian that has been living away from home since the 1970s.
Shihab Ghanem is an Emirati engineer, administrator, poet and author.
Muhydin Lazikani is a Syrian writer, poet and thinker. He is the editor-in-chief of Al-Hod Hod, an internet journal in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Persian. He has a doctorate in Arabic Literature, and has published several books and collections of poetry.
Sabri al-Haiki is a painter, critic and poet from Yemen.
Shaker Abdel Hamid Suleiman was the Egyptian Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2017. Born in Assiut, Upper Egypt, he served as secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture, then minister of culture at the Ministry of Kamal al-Ganzuri in December 2011, and was a professor of creative psychology - The Egyptian Academy of Arts. He died a week after he was infected with COVID-19.
Saadiah Mufarreh is a Kuwaiti poet, critic, and journalist working as an arts editor of Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, and has published several poetry collections.
Kulthum Abdullah Salem bin Masoud is an Emirati journalist, writer, poet and businesswoman.
Abdul Lateef Al Warari is a Moroccan poet and literary critic.
Ahmed Shablool is an Egyptian journalist, critic, and a poet born in 1953, he published many children's stories. In addition, he received many awards as: State Incentive Award in literature in 2008 for “Street's trees are my sisters”.
Abdel Qader Hassan Al-Qat was a prominent Egyptian poet, critic, and writer. Al-Qat is married to an Austrian of origin and has two children “Amin” and “Nora.” He was born in Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate, and holds a doctorate in Arabic literature and literary criticism. Editing the “Poetry” magazine in 1964, and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University in 1972. He received the King Faisal International Prize in Literature in 1980 and the editor-in-chief of the “Ibdaa” magazine for theater and cinema in 1983. He received the State Appreciation Award in 1985.
Huda Ashkanani is a Kuwaiti poet, born in Kuwait in 1986. Winner of the Voices from the World Award for Poetry with an establishment and publications for an establishment in 2012 and the recipient of the First Poetry Prize in the Cultural Activities Competition at Kuwait University in 2006. She published two poetry books: “Sky Looking for a Cover” in Beirut in 2011, which was widely critically acclaimed, and reviews and advertisements have been written about it. In 2013, she published her second book of poetry, "You were blind". Some of her poems have been translated into English and French.
