Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "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 Muslim poet. He is well known for compiling the Hamasah, which is considered to be one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic literature ever assembled. The Hamasah contained 10 books of poems, with 884 poems in total.
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الشابي, ALA-LC:Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī; 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 spelled Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer. He is one of the most widely read and translated short story writers of modern Syrian literature, as well as one of the foremost authors of children’s stories in Arabic. He also worked as a freelance journalist, writing satirical columns in Arabic newspapers.
Evelyn Ashamallah is an Egyptian Contemporary artist, best known for her vibrant and surrealistic works. Born to a Coptic Christian family in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna. Evelyn Ashamallah married an Egyptian Journalist, Mahmoud Yousry and they have two sons, Bassem Yoursi and Salam Yoursi. Evelyn Ashamallah also has three brothers. Evelyn Ashamallah is part of the 1970s Egyptian generation which was prompted after the defeat in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 to adopt a different trend from the realistic art that dominated Egyptian visual art in the 1960s. In the 1980s she moved to Algeria for a few years.
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab was an Iraqi poet, regarded as one of the most important contemporary Arab poets. Alongside Nazik Al Malaika, he is considered one of the founders of Arab free-verse poetry.
Hemant Divate is a Marathi poet, editor, translator and publisher based in Mumbai.
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.
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.
Sama Essa, an Omani poet and film critic, was born in 1954. He has published more than twenty poetry collections, the last of which was the collection titled "Wake Up, O Garden which was published in 2018.
Shaker Abdel Hamid Suleiman was the Egyptian Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2017. 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. He was also a Professor of Creative Psychology at The Egyptian Academy of Arts.
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 poet. He has 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”.
Abd al-Qadir Hassan Al-Qitt was an Egyptian poet, critic, and writer. He was born in Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate, and held a doctorate in Arabic literature and literary criticism. Al-Qat edited 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 State Appreciation Award in 1985, and was the editor-in-chief of the “Ibdaa” magazine for theatre and cinema in 1983.
