نازك سابا يارد

Nazek Saba Yared (نازك سابا يارد) was a Palestinian-Lebanese novelist, literary critic and academic. Born in Jerusalem on 11 April 1928, she settled in Lebanon after 1948 and took her doctorate in Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut in 1976.

She taught for some three decades, at the Collège Protestant Français in Beirut and later as an associate professor at the Lebanese American University.

She published around ten novels, among them Nuqtat al-Da'ira (1983), Taqasim 'ala Watar Da'i' (1992), Ayyam Bayrut and Fiqdan (2017), alongside literary scholarship — notably al-Rahhalun al-'Arab wa Hadarat al-Gharb, a study of Arab travel writing and its part in introducing European civilisation to Arab readers.

She also edited and introduced editions of Kahlil Gibran, including his letters to Mikhail Naimy and May Ziadah (2017). She died on 30 January 2025.