Elias Wadih Sanbar (Arabic: إلياس صنبر) (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat.

[2][3] During the late 1960s, Sanbar was a member of the French branch of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which was established by Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris, France.

[4][5] Through the union, Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon, where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.

[4] Sanbar co-founded Revue d'études palestiniennes [The Journal of Palestine Studies] in 1981, and was the journal's editor-in-chief for 25 years.

[6] He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French.