About Nada El Hage

Nada El Hage is the daughter of the Lebanese Poet Ounsi El Hage. She completed her high school education in Beirut before she headed to Paris to major in Philosophy in the Sorbonne University. She returned to Beirut to engage in an acting experience with the stage director Raymond Jebara. In the 1980’s she translated several plays from French to Arabic and Lebanese language. The plays were directed by Joseph Bou Nassar. She co-translated along with the Lebanese writer May Menassa, the poetical works of the late Nadia Tueni, “Sentimental Archives of the Lebanese War”. In Eighties and Nineties she edited the cultural pages in “Fairuz” magazine. She also wrote in cultural pages of both “Annahar” and “Al-Hayat” newspapers, and the weekly newspaper “Dalil Annahar" Poetry books of Nada El Hage: - “Prayer in the Wind” 1988 Published by Dar Annahar. - “Fingers of the Soul” 1994 Published by Dar Annahar. - “Journey of the Shadow” 1999 Published by Dar Annahar. - “All this Love” 2001 Published by Dar Annahar. - “Forest of Light” 2002 Published by Dar Annahar. - “With the lightness of a Falling Moon” 2006 Published by Dar Annahar. - “Veils of Passion” 2010 Published by HKI (Hiba Al Kawas International Inc.), distributed by Arab Scientific Publishers. - “Under the Blue Rain” 2015 Published by Dar Difaf. - “Traversing Wonderment” 2020 Published by Almutawassit Books - Milano. Books and Translations: Few of her poems have been translated and published in the contemporary Anthology “The Poetry of Arab Women”, edited by the writer and poet Nathalie Handal. Some of her poems have been also translated and published in French, Spanish and German Anthologies. Her book "Veils of Passion" was translated to Italian by Valentina Colombo and to Persian by Mohammad Hamadi. Her Poetry and Music: Hiba Al Kawas the composer and opera singer, composed music to many of her poems and sang them, of these Songs: Arda, Lianni Ahya, Ashamamta Itri, Salam Al Hurriya, Njoum Eddini Bi’inaik, Fi Biladi, O Liban Soit Sauvé, which was dedicated to President Jacques Chirac and in his presence at “Institute of Arab World" in Paris. As well as “Visions in water” a contemporary composition that was written to be played at Opera de Bastille by Neuwe Ensemble. She Adapted to Arabic the Lyrics of “All I ask of you” from “The Phantom of the Opera” to be Sang by Hiba Al Kawas and Jose Carreras. Magida El Roumi sang of Joseph Khalife’s Music, Nada El Hage poem “Ma Dumtu Ahia” (As Long as I live) from her book “Rihlat Al Thill” (Journey of the Shadow). As a team, Nada El Hage and the composer & Opera Singer Hiba Al Kawas, they composed and performed in a series of music and poetry recitals in Lebanon and abroad. Nada El Hage performed her poetry on various stages and through different cultural movements & festivals such as, Al Madina Theatre-Beirut 2000, Beirut International Arab Book Fair 2001, Sheikh Ibrahim Centre- Bahrain 2007, Unesco Palace-Beirut 2008, Freikeh Festival-Lebanon 2008, Lebanese American University 2009, Cairo Opera House 2009, Beit El Shier-Bahrain 2009, Daraj El Fan-Beirut 2009, Novara-Italy 2013, Sharjah International Book Fair 2015 and in several cities of Morocco 2019.