Salah ABOUJAOUDE s.j.

Professor
Doyen - FSR - Faculty of Religious Sciences

Rector's Office
Vice-recteur

+961 (1) 421 000 ext 5901 salah.aboujaoude@usj.edu.lb

As First Vice-Rector, I participate in several commissions and councils that are responsible for the smooth running of the university and its strategy. As Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, I perform the usual duties of this position and teach courses on confessionalism, democracy and religions, the state in Islam, and church and state. I also supervise doctoral students and master's students.

Education

Degree	University	Country	Year
Doctorat - Sciences religieuses	université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux III)	France	2003
D.E.A - Sciences religieuses	Université Lumière Lyon II	France	2000
Doctorat - Sciences religieuses	Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth	Liban

Research themes

Confessionalism in Lebanon - Democracy and religions - National life - The State in Islam - Church and State - Concepts of political action in Lebanon.

Publications and communications

- The barren years. The Ambitions of a Democratic Transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World, Dar el-Machreq, Beirut, 2018. - The Lost State. The Conditions for Democratic Transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World, Dar el-Machreq, Beirut, 2023. - The National Identity of Lebanon: Its Confessional Evolution and its Problems, Dar el-Machreq, 2008. - The Birth of Democracy in Lebanon and the Middle East, Dar el-Machreq, 2014. - Le Liban en Turbulence, Dar el-Machreq, 2024.