Elias Khoury (1948 – September 15, 2024) was a Lebanese short story writer, novelist, critic, playwright, and popular intellectual. He was born in Beirut. He wrote several novels, which have been translated into several languages, as well as three plays and screenplays. He also authored numerous critical articles. He worked as an editor for several Lebanese newspapers and served as editor-in-chief of the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar. He also taught at major universities in the United States, Arab countries, and Europe, and was a visiting professor of modern Arabic literature and comparative literature at New York University in 2006.