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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 Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator, who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French. After attending school in her native city Nazareth and in Lebanon, May Elias Ziadeh immigrated along with her family to Egypt in 1908, and started publishing her works in French (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911. Gibran Kahlil Gibran entered into a correspondence with her in 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of May Ziade has received more than 83,754 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). May Ziade is the 2,633rd most popular writer (up from 2,720th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Israel (up from 192nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Israeli Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

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  • 3.46

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, May Ziade ranks 2,633 out of 5,755. Before her are Samson Raphael Hirsch, Jeremias Gotthelf, Yasushi Inoue, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Takuboku Ishikawa, and Lucía Sánchez Saornil. After her are Shulamith Firestone, Joseph Delaney, Ibn Kemal, Esaias Tegnér, Ngaio Marsh, and Naoya Shiga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, May Ziade ranks 124. Before her are Maithili Sharan Gupt, Firmin Lambot, Rash Behari Bose, Fred Quimby, Armin T. Wegner, and Takuboku Ishikawa. After her are Kurt Hahn, Ferenc Münnich, Hitoshi Imamura, José Linhares, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Pierre Benoit. Among people deceased in 1941, May Ziade ranks 88. Before her are Mustafa Shokay, Alexandros Koryzis, Wil van Gogh, Simon Dubnow, Walter Ruttmann, and Grigory Shtern. After her are Parvin E'tesami, Olga Kameneva, Edgar Aabye, Louis Marcoussis, Kurt Hensel, and Kazimierz Bartel.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 191 out of 430. Before her are Naji al-Ali (1937), Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (1907), Carmela Corren (1938), Rafael Eitan (1929), Hillel Slovak (1962), and Hugh I of Cyprus (1194). After her are Yitzhak Hofi (1927), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Achinoam Nini (1969), Moshe Safdie (1938), and Ahron Daum (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 9. Before her are Edward Said (1935), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), David Grossman (1954), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), and Justus of Tiberias (35). After her are Ahron Daum (1951), Emile Habibi (1922), Meir Shalev (1948), Leigh Bardugo (1975), Etgar Keret (1967), and Tony Cliff (1917).

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