Our team - CLIPS

Our team

The “Lebanese Center for Strategic Planning”, under its chairmanship, is a high-level advisory body, composed of local and international specialists, to support the Administrative Council in endorsing the desired intellectual fronts and embodying them into multiple projects and activities.

Members of the founding and administrative board for the Lebanese Center for Strategic Planning.

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Doctor Wissam Maalouf

Founder and President of LeCLIPS. Doctorate in Political Philosophy and Strategic Planning, with a focus on the concept of the “Third Choice” for non-violent resistance, peace, and dialogue.

Specialized researcher in Positive Neutrality, with in-depth expertise in its application within the Lebanese context.

Doctorate in a Radical Human Approach, with research focused on developing a new conceptual framework on human fragility and its existential dimensions in the Lebanese context.

wissam.maalouf@leclips.org

Founding member of CLIPS and member of its administrative and executive committee.

Holder of a Doctorate in Modern and Contemporary French Literature in the year 2000, accompanied by a specialized focus in African Studies (Thesis Title: Evolution of Society and Poetry in Black Africa from Origins to 1960 / Research and Applied Analysis Method: Interdisciplinarity / Five volumes totaling 2200 pages / Mention: Excellent with congratulations from the Jury and authorization for the publication of the thesis under the title: The Black World: Restoring Intelligibility).

Author of four works in the field of African studies:
– African Socialism in Novels of Disillusionment between 1960 and 1980.
– The Initiation Novel in Black Africa and the Caribbean.
– African Theater between Aimé Césaire and Wole Soyinka.
– Negro-African and Antillean Monographs (a selection of one hundred and fifty literary personalities from yesterday and today in the Black world).

Appointed as a professor in 2008 and tenured in 2012 at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences (FLSH) – Section I of the Lebanese University (UL), where she teaches several academic units in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, including Comparative Literature, 19th Century Civilization (society, thought, arts), Literary Issues, Civilization of French-speaking countries, Research Methodology in French Literature, Art and Literature, Contemporary Letters and Arts, and Political and Economic Discourse Development.

Head of the Department of French Language and Literature at the FLSH – Section I since 2017-2018.

Member of the Research Council of FLSH-UL since 2016.
Member of the Research Project Evaluation Committee at FLSH since its establishment in 2019-2020.

Research Director for Master II in Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Literature since 2015.

Developed course descriptions for French Language and Literature units in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs (FLSH) totaling 260 pages in 2015-2016.

Prepared a Guide to Research Methods in French Literature in two volumes: Semiotics of Artistic Works and From the Sociology of Literature to Socio-criticism.

Prepared for publication the Proceedings of four international conferences that she organized and financed at FLSH-UL in 2017 and 2018, namely:
– The Mediterranean of Paul Vieille in debates: Identities, Chaos, Globalization (organized in collaboration with the French Institute of Tripoli (IF) and the Lebanese-French University (ULF) held on November 4, 2017).
– Perspectives on Michel Butor (organized on behalf of the Department of French Language and Literature held on May 10 and 11, 2018).
– And if Umberto Eco were told to me… (organized in collaboration with the Cultural Institute of the Italian Embassy in Lebanon held on December 10, 11, and 12, 2018).
– Arts and Mediation of the Arts in the Arab-Mediterranean Region: Public Space and Democracy (organized in collaboration with Aix-Marseille University, LESA, and IREMAM held on December 10, 11, and 12, 2018).

Author of a variety of academic articles in diverse fields such as sociology of literature, semiotics of artistic works, social psychology, thematic and geocriticism applied to a selection of literary works.

Developed theoretical and practical experience in translation studies and the translation process (Arabic, French, English) of a variety of genres in both academic teaching at the Faculty of Languages and Translation at the Islamic University of Lebanon (where she supervised terminology and translation studies theses between 2000 and 2008) and in professional translation.

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