Issa Makhlouf

{{short description|Lebanese writer and poet}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1955}}

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| nationality = Lebanese

| education = Sorbonne

| occupation = writer and poet

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| known_for = News Director at Radio Orient

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Issa Makhlouf ({{langx|ar|عيسى مخلوف}}; born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and poet who lives in Paris where he is the News Director at Radio Orient.

He obtained a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the Sorbonne and was professor at the University (E.S.I.T.) Paris III. Makhlouf also was a special UN Counsellor of Cultural and Social Affairs in the 61st session of the General Assembly (2006–2007).