Yehuda ha-Levi (1071 – 1141) was born in Toledo or Tudela, Spain and died in Alexandria or Jerusalem.
Shelomo Alkabetz (ca. 1500 – 1576) was born in Salonica and lived in Edirne, Turkey and Safed, Israel.
Yaghoub ben Paltiel Rashti (c. 1830 – unknown) was born in the city Rasht, Iran and moved to Tehran.
Rabbi David Bouzaglo (1903 – 1975) was born in Casablanca, Morocco. Watch the documentary "Song of Loves" about the life of Rabbi Bouzaglo here.
Sarah Sasoon is an Australian-born Iraqi-Jewish writer, poet, and educator who lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
Yaqub Sanu (1839 – 1912) "Abu Naddara" was born in Cairo, Egypt and lived in Livorno, Italy and Paris, France. He wrote in French, English, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Italian and Arabic.
Elia R. Karmona (1869 – 1931) was born in Istanbul and lived in Salonica, Greece and Alexandria, Egypt.
Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994) was born in Ruse, Bulgaria and lived in Austria, England and Switzerland. In 1981 Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Shimon Moyal (1866 – 1915) was born in Jaffa to a family that immigrated from Morocco. He translated the Talmud into Arabic. He co-founded the Judeo-Arabic newspaper Sawt Al Uthmaniyah (The Voice of Ottoman) with his friend Nissim Malul and co-edited the paper with his wife, Esther Azhari Moyal.
Esther Azhari Moyal (1874 – 1948) was born in Beirut, Lebanon and lived in Cairo, Egypt and Jaffa, Israel.
Daniel Hagège (1892 – 1976) was born in Tunis and lived in Paris, France. He was both an author, skilled in Judeo-Arabic literature, and a historian specializing in Tunisian Jewry.
Raby Moshfegh Hamadani (1912 – 2009) was born in Hamadan, Iran. He was an Iranian political journalist, writer, and translator of texts on education, sociology, and psychology into Persian.
Albert Memmi (1920 – 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist. In 1954, Memmi was awarded the Fénéon Prize for his book The Pillar of Salt.
Sasson Somekh (1933 – 2019) was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He served as professor emeritus of Modern Arab Literature at Tel Aviv University, and received the Israel Prize for Middle Eastern Studies in 2005.