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Joumana Haddad - Lebanese award-winning poet, writer, translator and journalist. She was the editor of An-Nahar newspaper's cultural page for more than ten years, and she taught creative writing at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She's an activist for equality, freedom of expression and human rights. She's been selected as one of the world's 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business magazine, for her cultural and social activism. Her works, which have been widely translated and published around the world, include The Return of Lilith, I Killed Scheherazade, Superman is an Arab, The Third Sex and the play Kafas (Cages), performed with great success at Metro Al Madina theater.
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