Habib Malik is a retired associate professor of history and cultural studies at the

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(LAU). His father Charles Malik was a leading figure in the drafting and adoption of the 1948

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Life and work

Habib Malik was born in 1954 in

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, and received his school education both in the

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and in the

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

. His father, Charles Malik, was the first ambassador of

to the

and is well known to have contributed to and shaping the

(10 December 1948), among other diplomatic services in his career. Habib's mother was Eva Habib Badr. Habib earned his bachelor's degree in history from the American University of Beirut, then, after spending one year at

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, he joined

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for his graduate studies where he earned his PhD in Modern European Intellectual History in 1985. Habib taught Intellectual/Cultural as well as Socio/Political History at the American University of Beirut’s Off-Campus Program (OCP), and at the Catholic University of America in

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He is currently an Associate Professor of history at the

(Byblos campus) and is chairing its newly emerging department of history. He was a visiting fellow at the

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in 1995 and 1996, and a visiting scholar at the

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in 2003.

Human Rights

Habib Malik is also a

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activist and a founding member of the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in

. He is also the president and CEO of The Charles Malik Foundation (registered in the

) that is in charge of editing and publishing Charles Malik's intellectual, diplomatic, and personal papers and legacy, and that guards his unpublished 50,000-page diary.

Major Publications

*''Between Damascus and Jerusalem: Lebanon and Middle East Peace'' (2000, 2nd edition) *''Receiving Søren Kierkegaard: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought'' (1997) *''The Challenge of Human Rights: Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration'' (ed.) (2001) *''The Systems of Whitehead's Metaphysics''(co-ed. with Tony E. Nasrallah)(2016) *''On the Philosophical Thought of Charles Malik''(co-ed. with Tony E. Nasrallah)(2018) He has also published many articles, essays, and chapters in books on a variety of topics that include human rights, political Islam, Middle Eastern Christian communities, democracy in the

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, Kierkegaard’s Arab reception, and also a chapter in ''Finding God at Harvard''.

References

Personal page at Lebanese American University-website
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