French
Arabic
Lina ISKANDAR HAWAT (EL)
Assistant Professor
Doctoral School of Human and Social Sciences – Chargé de Cours
Faculty of Dental Medicine – Chargé de Cours
Faculty of Pharmacy – Chargé de Cours
Faculty of Nursing Science – Chargé de Cours
Faculty of Religious Sciences – maître de conférences
Institute of Muslim-Christian Studies – Chargé de Cours
Higher Institute of Religious Studies – maître de conférences
Christian Near East – maître de conférences
+961 (1) 421 000 ext 5912 lina.iskandarhawat@usj.edu.lb
Since 2015, she has been teaching at Saint Joseph University in Beirut has held various administrative responsibilities, including as Academic Director of the Doctoral Studies Cycle at the Faculty of Religious Sciences, Coordinator of the Caravan Program for the Study of the Historical and Religious Reality of the Middle East, Editorial Secretary of the journal Proche-Orient Chrétien (POC), Deputy Director of the journal Fi-Rihab el Hiwar (suspended in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Horizons et Conjonctures published by the Faculty of Religious Sciences. She currently teaches Philosophy, Research Methodology and Fundamental and Professional Ethics (the latter in different faculties of USJ). Dr. Iskandar Hawat regularly publishes scientific articles in international journals and is invited each year to give lectures at European universities. She is fluent in Arabic, French, English and Italian, and has studied German, Greek, Syriac and Hebrew.
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctorate in political and moral philosophy | Université catholique de Lyon | France | 2021 |
Teaching at USJ
University teaching outside USJ
| University teaching outside USJ | Country | Institution | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Ethics and Religious Freedom | Spain | Universidad Loyola Andalucia | 02/12/2024 | 20/12/2024 |
| Ethique de la vie et de la pluralité | Lebanon | Université Antonine (UA) | 06/09/2024 | 06/12/2024 |
Areas of expertise
Research themes
Publications and communications
- “Religion, Sectarianism, the Challenges of Identity in the Middle East. A Focus on Lebanon the Christian Community”, Interkulturelle Theologie, 49 (2/2023), Basel.
- “Redefining Spirituality for the Common Good”, in Repensando la espiritualidad, la religión y el cristianismo en un mundo postsecular, Ignacio Sepúlveda del Río e Ángel Viñas Vera (ed.), Tirant Humanidades, Valencia, 2024.
Communications
- The Sacred the Secular: A Democratic Reconstruction for the Common Good. 2nd International Symposium on Secularity. Frankfurt, 30-31 May 2024
- Law and Morality, Vechta University/Germany, 25 March 2024.
-The Art of Separation for an Authentic Coexistence". Symposium “Universal/communitarian approaches to social values in Christianity and Islam”, Cluster of Christian-Muslim relations of the Kircher Network, Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain) - July 11th to 14th 2023.