French
Arabic
Vanessa BREIDY
Instructor
Institute of Muslim-Christian Studies
+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.
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificat - études islamiques | Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies | Italie | 2019 |
| Licence - Droit | Université de la Sagesse | Liban | 2007 |
| Master - Sciences politiques | Istituto Universitario Sophia | Italie | 2014 |
| Doctorat - études islamiques | Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies | Italie | 2024 |
Research themes
Comparative Islamic medieval philosophy Political thought Concept of fraternity; Interreligious dialogue living together
Publications and communications
• 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 Publication of cultural articles and analyses:
September 28, 2024: “Lebanon Once Again Trapped in the War of Others”, in Reset
Dialogues on Civilizations, Milano. https://www.resetdoc.org/story/lebanon-trappedwar-others/
July 31, 2024: “Hezbollah’s Gaza War Stance Deepens Divides in Lebanon”, in Reset
Dialogues on Civilizations, Milano. https://www.resetdoc.org/story/hezbollahs-gazawar-stance-deepens-divides-in-lebanon/
January 2, 2021: ““All but not the Prophet” Responded the Muslims”, in Global
Theater - IUS, Florence. https://www.sophiauniversity.org/it/news/all-but-not-theprophet-responded-the-muslims/
December 1, 2020: “A Closer Look at Lebanon: a New Chapter of the Arab Spring?”, in
Global Theater IUS, Florence.
https://www.sophiauniversity.org/it/news/a-closer-look-at-lebanon-a-new-chapterof-the-arab-spring/