Naji Naaman is not only a publisher. Born in Harissa (Lebanon) on May 19, 1954, he studied history, law and commercial sciences and got (in 1979) the respective three academic degrees from Lebanon, then (in 1980) a DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in history from the University of Nantes (France).

Married to Fadia Tawfiq Al-Hawa in 1981, father of one girl (Hanane) and two sons (Marwan et Rayyan), he run since 1979 Maison Naaman pour la Culture and is editing two specialized series of studies and researches about the Arab world: Siyassa wa Stratégia (Politcs and Strategy), in Arabic, and The Arab World, in English.
Naji Naaman is also editing and publishing, sometimes as sole author, two encyclopedias in Arabic: a thematic one entitled Encyclopedia of Contemporary Arab World (Mawsu'atul 'Alamil 'Arabiyyil Mu'assir), in ten volumes, and an historical one entitled Encyclopedia of Arab Events (Mawsu'atul Waqa'I'il 'Arabiyya), in five volumes.

The biographical volumes he created in 1985 in Arabic were edited as from 1999 in English via Naaman Biographical Centre (NBC). Two different titles are published: 2000 Prominent Arabs of the 20th Century, and World of Arabs. He released in 1991 a free of charge series of literary books, Ath-Thaqafa bil Majjan, and created, in 2002, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prizes (Jawa'iz Naji Naaman al-Adabiyya), which are awarded to authors of the most emancipated literary works (in content and style) aiming to revive and develop human values. Prizes awarded (between 2003 and 2007) more than 225 laureates worldwide, and made the publishing house a "polyglot" one printing in some forty different languages and dialects.

In 2007, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Monsignor Nicolas Naaman, he created a new series of Targeted Literary Prizes (Jawa'iz Naji Naaman Al-Hadifa), i.e.:

- Archbishop Nicolas Naaman's Prize for human virtues.
- Mitri Naaman's Prize for the defense and the advance of Arabic language.
- Angélique Bacha's Prize for the consolidation of familial ties.
- Marie-Louise El-Hawa Prize of moral literature for children.

The same year, he inaugurates "Mitri and Angélique Naaman Commemorative Room" (Salatu Mitri wa Angélique Naaman Al-Isti'adiyya), and organized a salon: "the Wednesday meetings" (Liqa'ul Arba'a').

Naji Naaman has more than forty works, among them two thesis in French: L'Organisation Administrative et Comptable de l'Imprimerie (1976), and l'Expansion Phénico-Punique en Méditerranée Occidentale (1980), as well as three economic studies in Arabic, and the following literary and poetic works: "Khams wa 'Ichroun" (Twenty five years, 1979), "Anti wal Watan" (You and the Homeland, 1980), "Ar-Rasa'il" (Letters, 1st edition, December 1995; 2nd edition, January 1996), "Al Mun'atiq" (The Emancipated, November 1997), "Adabiyyatul Alfith Thalith" (Writings of the Second Millenium, December 1999); the last book includes all the aforesaid literary works plus: "Al Mundamij" (The Integrated) and "Az-Zikra" (Souvenirs); finally "Al-Halim" (The Dreamer, November 2001), "Al-Alifya'" (The Alpha-Omega, December 2002), "Al-Mussalim" (The Pacifist, March 2005). His manuscripts include: "Lihubbiqi Sulafa" (theater, 2006).

Director of Les Éditions Arabes (between 1978 and 1979), the publishing house created by late Father Paul Coron s.j., Naji Naaman translated into Arabic five French titles within the famous "Que sais-je" series, i.e.: Les Euro-Dollars; Crises et Récessions Économiques; Le Proche-Orient Arabe; Le Foot-ball; La Franc-Maçonnerie. He also translated many other tiltles of foreign poets and writers, as well as Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal).
Naji Naaman is translated into French (Morceaux Choisis, 2002) and Romanian (Emancipatul, 2002, and Poeme Alese, 2003). Selected poems and texts of him entitled An-Najiyyat are translated in some thirty languages.

Moreover Naji Naaman created in 1987 Galerie d'Art Naaman (art gallery), and opened in 1999 the stocks of Maison Naaman pour la Culture to any person or association whishing to acquire free of charge books, and thus on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the House foundation, the fifth anniversary of its founder death, and the proclamation of Beirut the Arab cultural capital.

In his first and only participation to a poetic festival, Naji Naaman has been laureate of the International Grand Prix of Poetry awarded by the International Academy Orient-Occident, Bucharest – Romania, 2002. Nominated in 2004 to the famous Premi Internacional Catalunya, he refused several titles and prizes, The World Medal of Freedom, 2006, being the last of them.