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May Ziade

1886 - 1941

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May Elias Ziadeh ( zee-AH-də; Arabic: مي إلياس زيادة, ALA-LC: Mayy Ilyās Ziyādah; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941) was a Palestinian-Lebanese Maronite poet, essayist, and translator, who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French. Born in Nazareth, Palestine to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, Ziadeh attended school in her native city and in Lebanon, before immigrating along with her family to Egypt in 1908. She started publishing her works in French (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911, and Kahlil Gibran entered into a correspondence with her in 1912. Being a prolific writer, she wrote for Arabic-language newspapers and periodicals, along with publishing poems and books. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. May Ziade is the 2,903rd most popular writer (down from 1,840th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Israel (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Israeli Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, May Ziade ranks 2,903 out of 7,302. Before her are Ahron Daum, Michael Bond, Dionysius Periegetes, Vera Brittain, Aleksander Fredro, and Vyacheslav Ivanov. After her are Shulamith Firestone, Tom Stoppard, Juan Gelman, Richard Hughes, Eric Carle, and Carl Bernstein.

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Among people born in 1886, May Ziade ranks 131. Before her are Marthe Bibesco, Ty Cobb, Jean Hersholt, Rash Behari Bose, Georgios Tsolakoglou, and Lucien Gaudin. After her are Saburō Kurusu, Yehuda Ashlag, Fernand Crommelynck, Bertha Krupp, Grigory Neujmin, and Otto von Knobelsdorff. Among people deceased in 1941, May Ziade ranks 100. Before her are Jelly Roll Morton, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Mustafa Shokay, Kurt Hensel, Peder Mørk Mønsted, and Fritz-Julius Lemp. After her are Issai Schur, James Stephenson, Grigory Shtern, Maurice Bavaud, Karl Neukirch, and Giuseppe Amisani.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 205 out of 466. Before her are Amos Gitai (1950), Ilan Pappé (1954), Yaakov Ziv (1931), Justus of Tiberias (35), Hasan Salama (1912), and Ahron Daum (1951). After her are Alfonso of Brienne (1227), Adi Shamir (1952), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Gali Atari (1953), Pinchas Zukerman (1948), and Izhar Cohen (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 11. Before her are Ghassan Kanafani (1936), David Grossman (1954), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), Emile Habibi (1922), Justus of Tiberias (35), and Ahron Daum (1951). After her are Etgar Keret (1967), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Gideon Levy (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Yehoshua Kenaz (1937), and Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936).

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