Gina ABOU FADEL SAAD

Doyen - FdLT
Directeur - ETIB

Enseignant Cadré - Professeur - PHD

(+961) 1 421 000 ext 5627 gina.aboufadel@usj.edu.lb

 Professor Gina Abou Fadel Saad is the Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT) since 2016 and the Director of the School of Translators and Interpreters of Beirut (ETIB)since 2012 of Saint Joseph University of Beirut. Her professional activity involves teaching, supervising Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertations, training teachers and research.

She graduated from ETIB in 1984 and was the first person to obtain her Ph.D. in translation studies in 2003 from the same school. Her thesis was entitled The form exegesis: a gateway to the meaning.  Published in ETIB’s Collection Sources-Cibles, it is considered the first academic research in Arabic in the translation studies field.

Gina Abou Fadel Saad has published more than thirty articles and papers about language acquisition, translation and translation studies in addition to her contribution to a book about the terminology of translation. She is member of several scientific international journals in the fields of Languages and Translation Studies (Atelier de traduction, Lebende Sprachen, Al-Kimiya, “SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation”).

 She is also a member of the International Federation of Translators, of the SGeVT (Structuro-globale et verbo-tonale) Association for Languages Teaching and of the Universities Contact Group of the IAMLAD.

She holds the Lebanese 2020 Medal and the Knighthood Medal of the Academic Palm Order of the French Republic.