Yumna Al-Eid

Yumna Al-Eid (Arabic: يُمنى العيد) (born 1935) is a Lebanese writer and literary critic. She is considered a professor in Arabic criticism in more than one university in both the Orient and the Occident. Her original name, according to her identity, is Hikmat Al-Majthoob Al-Sabbagh, and she is also known as Hikmat Al-Khatib. She has tens of publications in both literature and criticism. She received many Arabic honorary certificates and awards, amongst which is Al-Owais Award. She was also chosen as the Cultural Personality of the Year in Sharjah International Book Fair. and Applied Research and Feminist Studies Centre in Sana’a.

Cultural activity Yumna participated in several symposiums and conferences. She dissociated herself from the political environment in 1988. She is also a member in Arab Writers Union, Cultural Council for South Lebanon, Cultural Center for Research and Documentation in Sidon, Writer and Book Association in Beirut, Qasim Amin: Amending Woman Tutelage (original title: Islah Qawamat Al-Mar’a) – 1970 Social Significance of Romantic Literature Movement in Lebanon (original title: Al-Dalala Al-Idgtima’ia li Harakat Al-Adab Al-Romantiki fi Lubnan) – 1979 and 1989 In Concepts of Criticism and Arabic Cultural Movement (original title: Fi Mafaheem Al-Naqd wa Harakat Al-Thaqafa Al-Arabiya) - 2005 Time of the Labyrinth (original title: Zaman Al-Mataha) – 2015 In the History of Criticism and the Question of the Arabic Culture (original title: Fi Tariekh Al-Naqd wa Su’al Al-Thaqafa Al-Arabiya) – 2017

Her translations Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by Mikhail Bachtin, co-translated with Muhammed Al-Bakri, Les Edition Toubkal, Morocco, 1983.

Awards Al Owais Cultural Foundation Award in the Literary Studies and Criticism category in 1992–1993.