Anbara Salam Khalidi was born on August 4, 1897 to a prominent Lebanese family in the capital, Beirut. Both her parents were involved in politics, her father serving as a deputy in Ottoman parliament & her mother, the sister of a former Lebanese prime minister. At a young age, Anbara was heavily involved in activism, writing her first editorial at the age of 15 and starting a society called The Young Arab Woman’s Awakening with her friends. Before moving to the United Kingdom at the age of 28 to continue her studies, Anbara studied at the Anglican Syrian College, which would later go on to become the American University of Beirut. After she finished her studies in the UK, she returned to Lebanon, where in 1929, she married a Palestinian educator, Ahmad Samih Al Khalidi, who she would later move to Jerusalem, Palestine with. Across the region, she was involved in the women’s movement and she would go on to join the Society for Women’s Renaissance, an organization dedicated to advancing women’s roles in society and politics. She advocated for the establishment of women’s schools and advancing women’s education, in addition to encouraging the support of Lebanese products, especially textiles and clothing. In addition to her activism, Anbara was also an educator and translator and she became the first person to translate Homer’s Odyssey and Virgils’s Aeneid into the Arabic language. After moving to Palestine with her husband, she helped him in his service of the Palestine cause, working with British and international commissions and delivering feminist speeches on the radio. She passed away in 1986 in her hometown of Beirut.