May Ziadeh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

May Ziadeh

Palestinian writer

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1886

Place of Birth: Nazareth, Northern District, Israel

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1941

Profession: writer, poet, translator, salonnière, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mary Elias Ziadeh ( zee-AH-d?; Arabic: ???? ????? ??????, ALA-LC: Mari Ilyas Ziyadah; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941), better known by her Arabic pen name May Ziadeh (Arabic: ?? ??????, ALA-LC: Mayy Ziyadah), was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator, who wrote different works in Arabic and in French.After schooling in her native Nazareth and in Lebanon, Ziadeh immigrated with her family to Egypt in 1908, and started publishing her French works (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911.
Kahlil Gibran entered into a well-known correspondence with her in 1912.
A prolific writer, she wrote for Arabic-language newspapers and periodicals besides publishing poems and books.
She held one of the most famous literary salons in the modern Arab world.
She called upon Arab women to aspire toward freedom, as in a 1921 conference.
After suffering personal losses at the beginning of the 1930s, she returned to Lebanon where her relatives placed her in a psychiatric hospital.
However she was able to get out of it, and left for Cairo, where she died later. Ziadeh is considered to have been a key figure of the Nahda in the early 20th-century Arab literary scene, and a "pioneer of Oriental feminism."