Roula Zebian
Roula Zebian (PhD), Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Lebanese University
Zebian hold a doctorate in French language and literature from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences – the Lebanese University, with an excellent grade, and a license to publish the thesis. She is specialized in Francophone literature, especially African literature in light of the interdisciplinary approach. Professor of Comparative Literature and Scientific Research Methodology in French Literature, at the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (First Branch).
Zebian has been supervising the preparation of many master’s theses since 2005, and has been the head of the French Language and Literature Department since 2018-2019. She is an author of several group of literary research and other scientific research methodologies such as semiotics and the sociology of literature.
Zebian is a translator for three languages (Arabic – French – English), she translated so far twenty-two books on various topics: the history of the Ottoman city between East and West; The history of the formation of the West; Islamic; Autobiography and autofiction; Ethics, philosophical terminology and translation; Ibn Rushd’s philosophy and its relationship to Islamic law; Thought and politics in the Arab world; Cancerous diseases; Languages of the Mediterranean Basin, history and development; Jewish-Islamic relations.
Zebian is a member of the International Feminist League for Peace and Freedom (Geneva), and she prepared research and studies on the conflict over water resources in the Middle East and North Africa. She is also the president of the Brigadier Asaad Thebian Foundation for Peace Culture Education.
In 2019, and in cooperation with the Permanent Peace Movement, Zebian published a book entitled: “Peace in the Mountain War, on the path towards transitional justice.” and she is in the process of preparing an analytical sociological study of the narratives it contains. In 2021, and in cooperation with the same movement, Zebian published a summary of a book entitled “Building Peace in Mount Lebanon, a Model for Post-War Mountain Reconciliation,” and she is in the process of completing its full version.