Habib Younes is a Lebanese poet, journalist, political writer, and professor at the Faculty of Media at the Lebanese University. He has published sixteen books and authored dozens of studies and articles covering a wide range of topics in various magazines, newspapers, and online platforms. Younes is also a television program producer and host, with shows spanning politics, history, culture, and the arts. He is a playwright and the author of poems that have been composed and performed by Lebanese artists. In addition, he has composed several musical pieces and is known as a music critic. In 2004, Habib Younes was awarded the Human Rights Prize by the “Organization for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law”.
When his soul left his body and this world, he left a house for poetry, a place for his things, and walls where the poetry he loved would remain. The Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al Arrayed, and all those who (followed) him in his literary journey and translated works, were retained by the Sheikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in his city which he belonged, Manama. For it was the house of fame, as the first among the homes of cultural centers outside the city of Muharraq.
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