Jacqueline Massabki

Jacqueline Massabki was a Lebanese writer and lawyer born in Beirut, Lebanon. She died there on 1 September 2015.

In 1965, she ran for election to the council of the Lebanese Bar Association and was the first woman to compete with her male colleagues and win. There she felt she could "finally give voice to a woman, to give her place and a role in this profession where they were still very rare to whisper their claims." She went on to win a second time but declined a third try. Her speaking engagements took her to China, the United States, Africa, India, Russia and Germany.

Later years Affected by Alzheimer's disease since 2006, Massabki died in 2015 in Beirut, where she is buried in the Ras el-Nabeh cemetery.

In the book by Swiss author Gilberte Favre, La Langue des dieux, the author pays tribute to Massabki.

Awards Massabki's novel, published in October 1989, by Robert Laffont, earned many awards in 1990 including:

the prize of the Houses of the Press, the prize of the newspaper La Vie, the RTL-Lire Grand Prize.