- Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925 in Beirut, French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon [now Lebanon]. She was a writer, known for Etel Adnan: Exoristes lexeis (2008), P.S. Beirut, Chapter One (2008) and Axis of Light (2011). She died on November 14, 2021 in Paris, France.
- Painter and author.
- She attended the Sorbonne, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. She became a philosophy professor at Dominican College (now university) in San Rafael, California.
- She grew up in Beirut speaking Greek and Turkish at home, Arabic on the street, and French at school.
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