 May Ziadeh

May Elias Ziadeh ( ; , ; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941) was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator, who wrote different works in Arabic and in French.After schooling in her native Nazareth and in Lebanon, Ziadeh immigrated with her family to Egypt in 1908, and started publishing her French works (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911.