Joumana Haddad (Arabic: جمانة حداد; née Salloum; born December 6, 1970, in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and human rights activist.

[1] She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine for her cultural and social activism.

Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking.

In the course of her career as a cultural journalist she has interviewed many international authors, such as Umberto Eco, Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek and others.

Between 2012 and 2016, she taught creative writing and Arabic modern poetry at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

In 2018 she started hosting a new TV show on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking.

In February 2010, she won the Blue Metropolis Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher Arab Literary Prize.

After she was announced a winner on the night of the elections by local TV news channels,[18] the authorities declared that she had actually lost on the morning of the following day, so there was a big demonstration [19] in front of the Ministry of Interior on the afternoon of May 7 to protest the results and ask for a recount.

[22] 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.