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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 mother and a Lebanese father, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of May Ziade has received more than 84,439 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). May Ziade is the 1,841st most popular writer (up from 2,625th in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Israel (up from 188th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Israeli Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, May Ziade ranks 1,841 out of 7,302. Before her are Rhonda Byrne, Daṇḍin, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Herodas, Pierre Lemaitre, and Fulcanelli. After her are Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Feng Menglong, Edmond Jabès, Hipponax, Paul Gerhardt, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, May Ziade ranks 78. Before her are Taimur bin Feisal, Edward Bach, Ali Sami Yen, Henry King, Amédée Ozenfant, and Victor McLaglen. After her are Henry H. Arnold, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, Hitoshi Imamura, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, and Manuel Ponce. Among people deceased in 1941, May Ziade ranks 68. Before her are Émile Picard, Hans Driesch, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Hans Berger, Lou Gehrig, and Issai Schur. After her are Christian Sinding, Ivan Panfilov, Alfred Hettner, Guillermo Kahlo, Hanns Kerrl, and Anandyn Amar.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 172 out of 466. Before her are Al-Hafiz (1074), Procopius of Scythopolis (250), Gabi Ashkenazi (1954), Dan Halutz (1948), Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522), and Avram Grant (1955). After her are Hasan Salama (1912), Ibzan (null), Jonathan Apphus (-200), Shulamit Aloni (1928), Suha Arafat (1963), and Eutocius of Ascalon (480).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, May Ziade ranks 8. Before her are Amos Oz (1939), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), Edward Said (1935), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), David Grossman (1954), and A. B. Yehoshua (1936). After her are Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), Gideon Levy (1953), Etgar Keret (1967), and Emile Habibi (1922).

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