Mohamad Nassereddine was born in Sojod, South Lebanon. He holds a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Tours, France. He is Professor of Medical Physics at the Lebanese University and teaches Critics to AI and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut (AUB). In 2019, he was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship at AUB.
A poet and translator, he is the author of nine poetry collections in Arabic, including A Prayer That Lengthens the Almond Tree by a Span, A Kick in the Village of Ants, The Pirate's Memory, A Long Misunderstanding, A Fifth Season for Departure, Two Candles for the One Who Waits, and Cages in Search of Birds, published between 2011 and 2019 by Dar Al-Nahda Al-Arabiya. His later collections include Show Me Your Face, O Fugitive (Al-Jamal Publications, 2023) and Designs for Another Life (Dar Al-Takween, 2024). He has also published a book in French with the French publishing house L'Harmattan.
Nassereddine has translated numerous literary and intellectual works from English and French into Arabic, including writings by Mircea Eliade, Pierre Guyotat, Mathias Énard, Nadia Bou Ali, and Éric Chacour. He has also edited the collected works of the renowned Arab intellectual Muhammad Kurd Ali as part of the Istiadat (“Recoveries”) series.
He is one of the editors of Kalimat, the cultural supplement of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. In 2022, he was awarded the International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa, USA. He represented Lebanon at the Mediterranean Poetry Festival in Sète, France, in 2017, and at the International Youth Poetry Festival in China in 2026.
He currently serves as Vice President of PEN Lebanon and Regional Editor for the MENA Spotlight Project of Tomorrow Club and PEN International Young Writers.
➣The impact of the Israeli war on Lebanon has been devastating for Dr Nasreddine; he lost his family home in southern Lebanon, and his own home was severely damaged by the airstrikes on Beirut in 2024. He lost many family members, including two of his cousins, and in August 2026, his sister and her entire family, including four children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home.
We are in shock as the PEN family and send our deepest condolences and solidarity to Dr. Nasreddine's family through this outrageous atrocity. We demand that justice be served for too many innocent lives, including Dr. Nasreddine's family members, that have been taken from all of us.
This one story about one family alone is emblematic of blatant injustice and suffering inflicted on generations of youths across the region, who never grew up old enough to even understand what was done to them and their homes, let alone the reason why.
