Dr. Salma Jamil Haddad is a Syrian academic, researcher, poet, novelist, and lexicographer. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Damascus and both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Translation from Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. She has published numerous academic and non-academic books and contributed a wide range of scientific research articles to both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals in the fields of translation, cultural studies, and literature.

In addition to her academic work, she has authored three novels: Sakina, the Caretaker’s Daughter, I Will Drink My Coffee in Brazil, and Complete Me, Ya Na’ila. She has also published five poetry collections in Arabic: The Depth of Night, Man, That Encrypted Being, I Love You, Yet I, I Whisper to Myself and Shed My Anxieties, and I Share with You the Edges of the Fire, as well as three poetry collections in English.