Middle Eastern Descent Archives - Page 5 of 15

Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).

Ikram Antaki

Syrian-Mexican essayist, fiction writer, and poet

Hana Assafiri

Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.

Bushra Rehman

Pakistani-American novelist

Maysoon Zayid

Palestinian-American comedian with cerebral palsy

A D Lauren-Abunassar

A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is a Palestinian-American poet, writer and journalist. Her first book, Coriolis, was winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.