Vanessa BREIDY

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

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.