Ziadeh attended primary school in Nazareth. As her father came to the Keserwan region of Mount Lebanon, she was sent at the age of 14 to Aintoura to pursue her secondary studies at a French convent school for girls. Her studies in Aintoura exposed her to French and Romantic literature, to which she took a particular liking. She attended several Roman Catholic schools in Lebanon before returning to Nazareth in 1904 to be with her parents. She is reported to have published her first articles at age 16. In 1908, she and her family emigrated to Egypt.