Najwa Barakat

[1] [2] [3] [4] After achieving studies in theater (Beirut Fine Arts Institute) and cinema (French cinema Institution), she moves definitely to Paris where she works as a freelance journalist in a number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, and gathered the materials for several cultural programs produced by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

She also prepared the first fifteen episodes of the cultural program broadcast at Aljaz,[4][failed verification] and authored several movie scripts as well as directing several documentaries.

Some of them have obtained awards and were translated into foreign languages, among which “The bus of good people” (1996), which received the "Prize of the best literary creation of the year", by the Lebanese Cultural Forum, Paris, in 1997[citation needed], and was translated into French in 2002, under the title: "Le bus des gens bien" - Stock Publisher (La Cosmoplite).

She also translated Les Carnets de Camus I – II – III into Arabic, published by Kalima and Dar Al-Adab, Summer 2010.

In 2003, the circuit Meaddle East- Goethe Institute choose her among several Lebanese writers to represent her country in the MIDAD Project: city's teller.