Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese author, poet, journalist, and women rights activist. She is one of the most sexually expressive writers in the Arab world, pushing the boundaries of Arab patriarchy one publication at a time.

Her first non-poetry book, "I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman," challenges the widespread image of Arab women in the West by attacking Scheherazade - the virgin protagonist of the famous Middle Eastern folktale: "One Thousand and One Nights."

She then published a sequel called "Superman is an Arab" in which she scrutinizes the dominant patriarchal system of the Arab world, stressing the need for a different type of masculinity.

In 2008, she launched the magazine Jasad - the first Arabic erotica magazine - which was later stopped for what critics called "pornographic assets."