17 Facts About Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and human rights activist.

Joumana Haddad has been selected as one of the world's 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine for her cultural and social activism.

Joumana Haddad is founder of Jasad, a quarterly Arabic-language magazine specialized in the arts and literature of the body.

Joumana Haddad has a weekly radio podcast on Radio Monte Carlo International, and she writes regularly for several international newspapers and magazines.

Joumana Haddad speaks seven languages, and has published 15 books so far.

In December 2018, Joumana Haddad won the Social Economic Award for the category of Social Media Influencer.

In 2009, Joumana Haddad herself co-wrote and acted in a movie by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab.

Joumana Haddad ran for the Lebanese parliamentary elections on May 6,2018.

Joumana Haddad was the first woman to edit the cultural pages of An-Nahar and to publish a magazine that discusses controversial and taboo topics in the middle east such as virginity, polygamy, violence against women and the LGBTQ community, in Arabic and in a conservative society.

Joumana Haddad was the first Arab woman to be openly atheist.

Joumana Haddad was born in Beirut in 1970 into a conservative Christian family.

Joumana Haddad is of Armenian extraction from her maternal grandmother's side, and Syriac Catholic from her maternal grandfather's side In 1975 the civil war started.

Joumana Haddad was surrounded by war and fear at a very young age.

Joumana Haddad divorced her first husband and later in her life got married again to her second husband who was a poet.

Joumana Haddad is an atheist and a critic of organised religion.

Joumana Haddad believes that not only some men are holding back women but women themselves can sometimes be the biggest obstacle to achieve equality because of internalized misogyny and the way they have been brainwashed to have no self confidence.

Joumana Haddad is an activist for equality, LGBTQ+ rights, individual freedoms and secularism.