Iskandar Habash

Iskandar Habash
إسكندر حبش
Born(1963-11-06)6 November 1963
Beirut
Died30 October 2025(2025-10-30) (aged 61)
Beirut
OccupationsPoet, journalist and translator

Iskandar Habash (Arabic: إسكندر حبش, romanized: Iskandar Ḥabash; 6 November 1963 – 30 October 2025) was a Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator of Palestinian origin.[1]

Biography

Iskandar Habash was born in Beirut on 6 November 1963. His family originated from Lidd, from which they were displaced during the 1948 Palestine war. He contributed to the publication of several poetry magazines in the 1980s and oversaw the cultural section of the newspaper As-Safir.[2] He died in Beirut on 30 October 2025.[3][4]

Works

Iskandar Habash mainly published poetry, including:[5][6]

  • Būrtrīh rajul min maʻdan (Arabic: بورتريه رجل من معدن), 1988
  • Niṣf Tuffāḥat (Arabic: نصف تفاحة), 1993
  • Ashkw al-kharīf (Arabic: أشكو الخريف), 2003
  • Lā Amal lī bi-hādhā al-ṣamt (Arabic: لا أمل لي بهذا الصمت), 2009
  • Lā Shayʼ akthar min Hādhā al-thalj (Arabic: لا شيء أكثر من هذا الثلج), 2013

Moreover, Habash actively translated books in Arabic, including the works of Fernando Pessoa, Émile Zola...

References

  1. ↑ "الصحافيّ والمترجم اسكندر حبش: مجتمعنا يلزمه تحديث بالمقاومة.. وأحاول استعادة هوس الطفولة بالكتابة الشعريّة بالبناء الجديد". al-binaa (in Arabic). 1 April 2019. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  2. ↑ ʻAlī Ḥasan, Manār (2015-05-13). "«البيت الدولي للكتاب» في بيروت يجمع 12 شاعراً عالمياً". al-Jarida (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-10-31.
  3. ↑ "وفاة الكاتب والشاعر إسكندر حبش". An-Nahar (in Arabic). 30 October 2025. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Minister of Culture Mourns Iskandar Habash: He Was a Pillar of As-Safir and a Luminary Among Early Century Intellectuals". National News Agency. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
  5. ↑ "رحيل مبكر للشاعر والمترجم إسكندر حبش". The New Arab (in Arabic). 31 October 2025. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  6. ↑ Barakah, Muḥammad (31 October 2025). "قاوم السرطان بالقصيدة.. من هو الشاعر اللبناني الراحل إسكندر حبش؟". Erem News (in Arabic).
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