Iskandar Habash (; 6 November 1963 – 30 October 2025) was a Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator of Palestinian origin.
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. He died in Beirut on 30 October 2025.
Works Iskandar Habash mainly published poetry, including: Būrtrīh rajul min maʻdan (), 1988 Niṣf Tuffāḥat (), 1993 Ashkw al-kharīf (), 2003 Lā Amal lī bi-hādhā al-ṣamt (), 2009 Lā Shayʼ akthar min Hādhā al-thalj (), 2013
Moreover, Habash actively translated books in Arabic, including the works of Fernando Pessoa, Émile Zola...
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