Vanessa BREIDY

Institut d'études islamo-chrétiennes – Chargé de Cours

+961 (1) 421 000 vanessa.breidy1@usj.edu.lb

Enseignant Profile

Vanessa Breidy is a lawyer, member of the Beirut Bar Association, she has a doctorate degree in Arabic Islamic studies from PISAI, Rome Sophia University Institute, Florence. She is a researcher advocator for the culture of dialogue living together between religions and civilizations. She teaches the Master’s degree course entitled “The Foundations of the Concept of Fraternity in Christianism and Islam” at the Institute of Muslim-Christian Studies in St. Joseph University, Beirut. She has written essays about Islamic and Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages, which is the area of specialization of her doctoral thesis. She has worked with CSOs and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon for the development of the official school curriculum of philosophy and civic education. She has organized and participated in meetings and seminars in many cities of the world from which Beirut, London, Belfast, Bonn, Rome, Istanbul, and Washington. She is currently starting a new initiative called Mirdad for developing and spreading a deeper Arabic culture. She speaks four languages fluently: Arabic, English, French and Italian.


Education

Diplôme Université Pays Année
Doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies PISAI, Rome Italie 2024
Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Italie 2019
Foundations and Perspectives for a culture of unity, specialisation in political studies Sophia University Institute Italie 2014
Licence en Droit Université la Sagesse (ULS) Lebanon 2007

Teaching at USJ

University teaching outside USJ

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Lawyer Qualified Member of Beirut Bar Association 01/05/2017 01/11/2024
Programme manager Adyan Foundation 01/07/2015 30/11/2017

Areas of expertise

Enseignant Discipline
Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences

Research themes

Enseignant Thematique

Comparative Islamic medieval philosophy Political thought Concept of fraternity; Interreligious dialogue living together

Publications and communications

Enseignant Publi and Com

•January 31, 2024: Excerpts of my doctoral dissertation in Arabic Islamic Studies: From Knowledge to Political Authority. The Case of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī Thomas Aquinas. Approved to be printed published by the Pontifical Institute for Arabic Islamic Studies, PISAI, Rome.•February 23-24, 2023: Intervention in CILE International Seminar, The Ethics of Wilāya, Doha, Qatar. My intervention was entitled: “Al-Wilāya in the Political Thought of al-Ġazālī.”•May 23-27, 2022: Intervention in Pluriel 3rd International Congress, Islam and otherness, in Université St. Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. My intervention was entitled: “Unity of God and Unity in God – a Possible Perspective and Way of Dialogue between the Believers?”•October 26, 2021: Intervention in the conference Fraternal World: a Fraternidade em Debate held by Faculdade Catolica de Santa Catarina FACASC, Florianopolis, Brazil. My intervention was entitled “Fraternità e Conflitti”, it is published in Encontros Teologicos, v. 36/3, 2021. https://facasc.emnuvens.com.br/ret/article/view/1693/1368

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