Gibran Khalil Gibran, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected this title in his lifetime. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and is one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into dozens of languages.
Ounsi el-Hajj was a Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator.
Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm was a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria and was, until 2007, a visiting professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His main area of specialization was the work of German philosopher Immanuel Kant, but he later placed a greater emphasis upon the Islamic world and its relationship to the West, evidenced by his contribution to the discourse of Orientalism. Al-Azm was also known as a human rights advocate and a champion of intellectual freedom and free speech.
Ghassan J. Hage is a Lebanese-Australian academic serving as Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Ghassan Salhab is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director.
Zena El Khalil is a Lebanese artist, writer, and activist.
Hiba Al Kawas is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer, and academic.
Zad Moultaka is a Lebanese composer, pianist and visual artist. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris and has played at the Baalbeck International Festival. He worked with Fadia Tomb El-Hage in his 2009 album Visions.. Moultaka developed a visual practice and, in 2017, was the artist of the pavilion of Lebanon at the Venice Biennale with ŠamaŠ, a project combining musical composition and architectural intervention.
Paola Yacoub is an artist based in Berlin and Beirut.
Anton Vidokle is an artist and founder of e-flux. Born 1965, Vidokle lives in New York and Berlin.
Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts is an association promoting and producing contemporary art practices in Lebanon.
Lamia Joreige is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Since the late 1990s, her works have been widely displayed. She is a co founder and co director of the Beirut Art Center. In 2011, Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige organized “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” at New York City's New Museum.
Gregory Buchakjian is a Lebanese photographer, filmmaker and art historian. He studied at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He his the director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA and was co founder, with architects Pierre Hage Boutros and Rana Haddad, of Atelier de Recherche ALBA.
Saleh Barakat is a Lebanese art expert, gallery owner and curator. He studied at the American University of Beirut and was nominated as a Yale World Fellow in 2006. He runs Agial Art Gallery and Saleh Barakat Gallery in the Ras Beirut area.
Helen Khal was an American born artist and critic of Lebanese descent.
Jalal Khoury was a playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor.
Rania Stephan is a Lebanese filmmaker and video artist. She is best known for her first feature film The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011).
Joelle Khoury is a Lebanese-American pianist and a jazz and contemporary classical music composer.
Nayla Tamraz is a Lebanese writer, art critic, curator, researcher and professor of Literature and Art History at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from the New Sorbonne University in 2004.
