Portrait of Youmna Melhem Chamieh

photo credit: Tania Veltchev

About

Youmna Melhem Chamieh is a French‑Lebanese writer working across print and screen media.

She has written for outlets including Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Harvard Human Rights Review and The Financial Times. She has worked in television (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), film development (Stay Gold Features), copywriting (L'Oréal, Pernod Ricard) and magazine publishing (Guernica).