Joumana Haddad is one of the most popular and richest Linguist who was born on December 6, 1970 in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon. Joumana Haddad (Arabic Jmn@Hdd ) (ne Salloum, born 6 December 1970, Beirut) is known as a Lebanese author journalist, public speaker, and women’s rights advocate. She was named one of the 100 most influential Arab females for the past four consecutive years according to Arabian Business Magazine (she came on the 34th spot in 2017) in recognition of her work in the field of culture as well as social action. She is the creator of Jasad which is a quarterly Arabic-language magazine that is a specialist in the literature and the arts that concerns the human corpus (2009-2011). Haddad has launched a brand new TV show in November of 2018 on Alhurra which focuses on issues of freedom of speech and critical thought.
In 2009 she wrote and acted in a film directed by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab (“What’s going on? “).
In February 2010, she won the Blue Metropolis Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher Arab Literary Prize
In November 2012, she received the Cutuli Prize for journalism in Catania, Italy.
As of October 9, 2009 she had been selected as among the top 39 intriguing Arab writers who are under the age of 39.
