Joumana Haddad (Template:Lang-ar) (née Salloum; born December 6, 1970 in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and women's rights activist.^[1] 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.^[2] She is founder of Jasad, a quarterly Arabic-language magazine specialized in the arts and literature of the body (2009–2011). Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking.^[3]

She's been the cultural editor of An-Nahar newspaper, where she worked between 1997 and 2017. Joumana Haddad is on the Board^[4] of Advisors of MARCH Lebanon (an NGO fighting censorship and raising awareness about the right to free expression).

In 2009, she co-wrote and acted in a movie by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab ("What's going on?").^[5]

In October 2009, she has been chosen as one of the 39 most interesting Arab writers under 39.^[6]

In November 2009, she won the International Prize North South for poetry, of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation in Italy.^[7] 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^[8]

In August 2010, she received the Rodolfo Gentili Prize in Porto Recanati, Italy.^[9]

In November 2012, she received the Cutuli Prize for journalism in Catania, Italy.^[10]

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.^[11]

In February 2014, she was awarded the "Career Poetry Prize" by the Archicultura Foundation in Acquiterme, Italy.^[12]

In December 2018, Haddad won the Social Economic Award for the category of Social Media Influencer. ^[13]

Haddad's magazine is the feature of a 2013 film by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson, Jasad & The Queen of Contradictions, a Women Make Movies release.^[14]

She ran for the Lebanese parliamentary elections on May 6, 2018. After she was announced a winner on the night of the elections by local TV news channels ^[15] , the authorities declared that she had actually lost on the morning of the following day, so there was a big demonstration ^[16] in front of the Ministry of Interior on the afternoon of May 7 to protest the results and ask for a recount ^[17]. Haddad went on to submit an appeal to the Constitutional Council on June 7 with the prominent lawyer Melhem Khalaf, ^[18] but her case was supported by only three out of the ten members of the Council, so her appeal for a recount was revoked. ^[19]

• Invitation to a secret feast, poetry, (2008)
• Two hands to the abyss, poetry, (2000)
• I did not sin enough, selected poems, (2003)
• Lilith's Return, poetry, (2004)
• The panther hidden at the base of her shoulders, selected poems, (2006)
• In the company of the fire thieves, Conversations with international writers, (2006)
• Death will come and it will have your eyes, Anthology of 150 poets who committed suicide, (2007)
• Bad habits, selected poems, (2007)
• Mirrors of the passers by, poetry, (2008)
• Kitab el Jeem, poetry, (2012)^[20]
• Cages, theater, (2014)
• Bint El Khyatta, novel, (2018) ^[21]

• Invitation to a Secret Feast, poetry, 2008, Tupelo Press, Vermont, USA.
• Madinah, city stories from the Middle East, anthology, 2008, "Comma Press", Manchester, UK.^[22]
• I Killed Scheherazade, Essay, 2010, "Saqi Books", London, UK.^[23] The book has been translated to French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Croatian, Norwegian, Romanian and Arabic.^[24]
• Superman is an Arab, Essay, 2012, "Westbourne Press", London, UK.^[25] The book has been translated to French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian and Arabic.
• The Third Sex, Essay, 2015, "Nawfal", Beirut, Lebanon.
• The Seamstress' Daughter, Novel, 2018, "Nawfal", Beirut, Lebanon.^[26]

• Le sette vite di Luca, Children's literature, 2011, Mondadori Junior, Milan, Italy.^[27]

• Allí donde el río se incendia, Antología poética, 2005, Ediciones De Aquí, Málaga, Espana, 2006, Fundación Editorial El Perro y la Rana, Caracas, Venezuela.

• Le temps d'un rêve, Poésie, (1995)
• Les amants ne devraient porter que des mocassins, littérature érotique, 2010, Editions Humus.^[28]

• Damit ich abreisen kann, 2005, Lisan Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.
• Cuando me hice fruta, 2006, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, Venezuela.
• El retorno de Lilith, 2007, Editorial Praxis, Mexico, Mexico/ 2010, Diputacion Provincial de Malaga, Mar Remoto, Spain.^[29]
• Le retour de Lilith, 2007, Editions L’Inventaire, Paris, France/ 2011, Editions Actes Sud, Paris, France.
• Liliths Wiederkehr, 2008, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, Germany.
• Adrenalina, 2009, "Edizioni del Leone", Venice, Italy.^[30]
• Il ritorno di Lilith, 2010, "Edizioni l'Asino d'Oro", Rome, Italy.^[31]
• Lilits återkomst, 2010, Bokförlaget Tranan, Stockholm, Sweden.^[32]
• Espejos de las fugaces, 2010, "Vaso Roto ediciones", Mexico.^[33]
• Miroirs des passantes dans le songe, 2010, « Al Dante », Paris, France.^[34]
• Las siete vidas de Luca, Literatura infantil, 2011, Vaso Roto, México, México.^[35]
• Los amantes deberían llevar solo mocasines, Literatura erótica, 2011, Vaso Roto, México, México.^[36]
• Am ucis-o pe Seherezada, Philobia, 2012, Bucharest, Romania

Joumana was born into a conservative Christian (Greek Catholic) family. Her mother is of Armenian extraction from her own mother's side, and Syriac Catholic from her father's side.^{[citation needed]} She has married twice, and has two children.

She lives in Beirut. She is a staunch atheist and critic of organised religion.^{[37][38][39][40] [41]}.

Joumana Haddad is a feminist (she defines herself as a third wave feminist). She is an activist for equality, human rights, individual freedoms and secularism. She is also known for her activism against homophobia in Lebanon and the Arab world. ^{[42] [43]}

• Randa Kassis
• Lina Ben Mhenni
• Beirut

• Official website
• [1]
• The official website of JASAD magazine
• Interview with Joumana Haddad: "Eroticism is the Pulse of Life"
• Rawafed
• Jasad & The Queen of Contradictions at Women Make Movies