Mahdi Mansour is a Lebanese poet, physicist and educator based in Paris. He writes Arabic poetry across classical, free-verse and prose forms, and sees poetry and physics as two languages for the same question: how we understand the world and put our wonder at it into words.

He has published eight poetry collections, and his poems have been sung by Faia Younan, Ahmad Houeili and others; «Ya Qatily» won the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal International Prize for Arabic Poetry (2024). He has read at the Festival d'Avignon, Étonnants Voyageurs in Saint-Malo, the Babylon International Festival and the Jerash Festival, and his TED talk in Arabic explores why physics and poetry are so alike.