Roula Zebian

Roula Zebian (PhD), Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Lebanese University

Zebian holds a doctorate in French language and literature from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the Lebanese University, awarded with distinction and a license to publish her thesis. She is specialized in Francophone literature, particularly African literature, through an interdisciplinary approach. She is a professor of Comparative Literature and Scientific Research Methodology in French Literature at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level 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 academic year. She is the author of several works in literary research and scientific research methodologies, including semiotics and the sociology of literature.

Zebian is a translator fluent in Arabic, French, and English, and has 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.

In 2019, and in cooperation with the Permanent Peace Movement, Zebian published a book titled “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, she published a summary of a book titled “Building Peace in Mount Lebanon: A Model for Post-War Mountain Reconciliation,” and she is in the process of completing its full version.

She is a member of the International Feminist League for Peace and Freedom (Geneva) and has conducted 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.