Loubna Haikal is a Sydney-based writer. Her first novel, Seducing Mr Maclean, was published by Picador in 2002.

After completing her medical degree at Melbourne University, Loubna Haikal worked in general practice for ten years.

She studied ballet for several years at the Victorian Ballet School and has directed and acted in many plays including a Lebanese Folkloric Ballet which she wrote and directed for the Melbourne Arts Festival.