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Joumana haddad interview on dutch tv complete in english mkv
Joumana Haddad (Arabic: جمانة حداد) (born Salloum; December 6, 1970 in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and women's rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women for four years in a row by Arabian Business Magazine (she came in position 34 in 2017), for her cultural and social activism. She is founder of Jasad, a quarterly Arabic-language magazine.
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- Joumana haddad interview on dutch tv complete in english mkv
- Writer poet blogger joumana haddad with youmna naufal february 12 2012
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Writer poet blogger joumana haddad with youmna naufal february 12 2012
Career
She's been the cultural editor of An Nahar newspaper, where she worked between 1997 and 2017. She also taught creative writing at the Lebanese American University in Beirut between 2012 and 2016.
She's already published several best selling books, widely acclaimed by critics. Her works have been translated to many languages and published abroad.
Speaking seven languages, Haddad is a polyglot and has written books in different languages, and has also published several works of translation, including an anthology of Lebanese modern poetry in Spanish, published in Spain as well as in many Latin American countries, and an anthology of 150 poets who committed suicide in the 20th century.
She interviewed many international writers, such as Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, and others.
Joumana Haddad is on the Board of Advisors of MARCH Lebanon (an NGO fighting censorship and raising awareness about the right to free expression).
She’s been the administrator of the prestigious Arab literary prize IPAF or the Arab Booker Prize, from 2007 till 2011.
Joumana Haddad has been awarded the Arab Press Prize in 2006.
In 2009, she co-wrote and acted in a movie by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab ("What's going on?"). She also had an appearance in a documentary by filmmaker Nasri Hajjaj, about Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
In October 2009, she has been chosen as one of the 39 most interesting Arab writers under 39.
In November 2009, she won the International Prize North South for poetry, of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation in Italy. The winner of the novel prize was Austrian writer Peter Handke.
In February 2010, she won the Blue Metropolis Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher Arab Literary Prize
In August 2010, she received the Rodolfo Gentili Prize in Porto Recanati, Italy.
In November 2012, she received the Cutuli Prize for journalism in Catania, Italy.
In July 2013, she was appointed honorary ambassador for culture and human rights for the city of Naples in the Mediterranean by the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris.
In February 2014, she was awarded the "Career Poetry Prize" by the Archicultura Foundation in Acquiterme, Italy.
In addition, she is a performer and a collage artist.
Haddad's magazine is the feature of a 2013 film by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson, Jasad & The Queen of Contradictions, a Women Make Movies release.
Personal life
Haddad was born into a conservative Christian Maronite family. Her mother is of Armenian extraction. She lives in Beirut with her two sons. She is a staunch atheist and critic of organised religion.