{{Short description|Lebanese writer (1958–2021)}} {{Infobox person | name = Inaya Jaber | image = File:Inaya Jaber.jpg | caption = Jaber | native_name = عناية جابر | native_name_lang = ar | birth_date = {{birth year|1958}} | birth_place = Bint Jbeil, Lebanon | death_date = 10 May 2021 (aged 62–63) | occupation = Writer, poet, journalist }}

'''Inaya Jaber''' ({{langx|ar|عناية جابر}}; 1958 – 10 May 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|last=مبتدا|date=2021-05-11|title=وفاة الأديبة والشاعرة اللبنانية عناية جابر|url=https://www.mobtada.com/details/1047569|access-date=2021-05-11|website=www.mobtada.com|language=ar}}</ref> was a Lebanese writer, journalist, artist and singer. She has published nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. She lived in Beirut.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/239/inaya-jaber/|title=Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Inaya Jaber|website=www.banipal.co.uk|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=410686|title=اللبنانية عناية جابر… قصائد المزاج وغواية الجسد والكلام|last=Fawaz|first=Ali Hussein|date=2015-09-30|work=القدس العربي Alquds Newspaper|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-us|trans-title=Lebanese Inaya Jaber .. Poems of mood, seduction of the body, and speech}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://circulodepoesia.com/2010/02/la-traduccion-inaya-jaber/|title=La traducción: Inaya Jaber|last=Toledo|first=Julio César|date=2010-02-08|website=circulodepoesia.com|language=es-MX|access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref>

== Biography == Jaber was born in 1958 in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. She studied at the Lebanese University and at the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music. She wrote a weekly column in al-Quds al-Arabi (London) for over twenty years and was also a contributor to the Lebanese newspaper al-Safir, writing on arts and culture.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abjjad.com/author/2793308428/%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1/books|title=عناية جابر|website=www.abjjad.com|trans-title=Inaya Jaber|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jaber|first=Inaya|date=March–April 2018|others=Translated by Karen McNeil and Miled Faiza|title=I have the right to be a stranger|url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/march/i-have-right-be-stranger-inaya-jaber|journal=World Literature Today|volume=92|issue=2|pages=18–19|doi=10.7588/worllitetoda.92.2.0018 |s2cid=166075393 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In addition to writing, she was a visual artist and singer and has performed concerts internationally including in Egypt and Italy.<ref name=":1" />

Jaber has three adult children, all of whom live in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elgzal.com/news-20,N-3010.html|title=فنجان ثقافة {{!}} حوار مع الاعلامية الشاعرة الفنانة عناية جابر لبنان|last=Antone|first=Ibtissam|date=2012-03-06|work=الغزال al-Ghazal|access-date=2018-04-29|trans-title=A Cup of Culture: Interview with Lebanese poet, writer and media personality Inaya Jaber}}</ref> She lived in Beirut.<ref name=":0" />

== Selected works ==

=== Short story collection ===

* ''Lā ʼaḥad yuḍīʻu fī bayrūt'' (''No one gets lost in Beirut''), 2016

=== Poetry collections ===

* ''ʻArūḍ al-ḥadīqa (The garden's prosody)'', 2011 * ''Lā ʼaḵwāt lī'' (''I have no sisters''), 2009 * ''Jamīʻ ʻasbābinā (All of our reasons)'', 2006 * ''Sātān ʼabyaḍ'' (''White satin''), 2002 * ''Ṯumma ʼinnanī mašḡūla (Also, I'm busy)'', 2000 * ''ʻAstaʻaddu lil-ʻašāʼ (I'm getting ready for dinner)'', 1999 * ''ʼUmūr basīṭa'' (''Simple matters''), 1997 * ''Mizāj ḵāsir'' (''A losing mood''), 1995 * ''Ṭaqs al-ẓullām'' (''Ritual of darkness''), 1994 *

== References == {{Reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaber, Inaya}} Category:1958 births Category:2021 deaths Category:Lebanese women poets Category:21st-century Lebanese poets Category:21st-century Lebanese women writers Category:20th-century Lebanese poets Category:People from Bint Jbeil District Category:Conservatoire Libanais alumni Category:Lebanese University alumni Category:20th-century women poets Category:21st-century women poets

{{Lebanon-bio-stub}}