Alexandre Najjar

Alexandre Najjar (born February 5, 1967) is a Lebanese and French writer, lawyer and literary critic.

In addition to poetry and novels, he has written non-fiction works like the biography of Khalil Gibran, the author of The Prophet,[1] a book about the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Nazi Germany (Berlin 36) and a book about the Arab Spring (Anatomie d'un tyran).

Najjar is also a columnist and critic for L'Orient littéraire, the literary supplement of the Lebanese French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour.

In 2009, he received the Prix Mediterranee for his book Phenicia and a distinction from the French Academy (L'Académie française), in addition to numerous Lebanese and international awards.

He has given lectures in Paris, Poitiers, Perpignan, Marseille, Washington, New York, Mexico, Stockholm, Goteborg, Ireland, Italy, Moscow, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and other countries/cities.

"Haïti, suivi de : Aller simple pour la mort", poems, Dergham, 2010.

Awraq Joubrania, Dar an-Nahar, Beirut, 2006 (in Arabic) La Passion de lire, Librairie Antoine, 2005 Saint Jean-Baptiste, biography, Pygmalion, 2005 (ISBN 2-85704-854-8) Le Roman de Beyrouth, novel, Plon, 2005 (ISBN 2-266-16499-6); Pocket, n°13070.

Terre du Liban : Khalil Gibran, biography, Pygmalion, 2002 (ISBN 2-85704-777-0); J'ai Lu n°7841.