Wadad Makdisi Cortas (1909 - 1979) (in Arabic "وداد مقدسي قرطاس") was a Palestinian-Lebanese educator and memoirist.
Wadad Makdisi grew up in an educated family in Beirut, and attended Ahliah National School for Girls as a child.
She also taught at Beirut College for Women, and was on the board of the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts.
Cortas's memoir, Dunia Ahbab-tuha (A World I Loved) was published in Arabic in the 1960s.
She translated the memoir into English and updated it in her retirement;[2] the revised version was published posthumously, with a foreword by Nadine Gordimer, in 2009.