Etel Adnan
 Etel Adnan (born 24 February 1925 in Beirut Lebanon) is a Lebanese-American poet essayist and visual artist. In 2003 MELUS the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States called Adnan arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today. She currently lives between Paris France and Sausalito California.