Elias Wadih Sanbar (Arabic: ????? ?????) (born 1947) is a Palestinian historian, poet, essayist, translator and diplomat.
Since 2012 he has been the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO.Sanbar co-founded La Revue d'Études Palestiniennes [The Journal of Palestine Studies] in 1981, and was the journal's editor-in-chief for 25 years.
He has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into French.Sanbar's book The Palestinians was the 2015 winner of the Palestine Book Awards.