Maudie Bitar

Maudie Bitar (Arabic:مودي بيطار) is a Lebanese journalist and critic.^[1] She has worked for and published extensively in an-Nahar (Lebanon) and al-Hayat (London) newspapers. She writes a regular column on Western literature in al-Hayat. Her articles have also appeared in al-Wasat magazine, and Banipal magazine published her original review of Syrian author Haifa Bitar in an English translation by Issa Boullata.^[2] In January 2012, she was named as a judge for the 2012 Arabic Booker Prize.

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