Adib Ishaq

Adib Ishaq (, ; 21 January 1856 – 12 June 1885) a Syrian-Armenian journalist and editor of nineteenth-century.

Born in Damascus (then a city of the Ottoman Empire, and the present-day capital of Syria), he was enrolled at a Lazarists' school, where he studied Arabic and French. He left school before he was even twelve years old to meet his family's needs by working at the customs house. This experience would make him proficient in Turkish as well. He joined the Urabi Nationalist Movement (1879-1882), and held an senior secretarial position for the government of the movement. He however had to leave Egypt in 1881 when the movement became to disintegrate and prominent figures within it started defecting to the British.

He died at his summer estate in al-Hadath (in present-day Lebanon). A collection of his works in Arabic was published under the title Al-Durar (The Pearls) by Jirjis Mikha'il Nahhas in Alexandria in 1886; another edition of Al-Durar, edited by Adib's brother Awni, was published in Beirut in 1909.