Associate Profoessor Alam has taught full time in the Faculty of Humanities since 1996. From 1999-2004, he was the university’s first full time Director of International Academic Affairs initiating projects with the U.S. State Department's of higher education and with Bordeaux Business School, to mention a few. He initiated and directed a Metanexus LSI project, devoted to the interface between religion and science, which was awarded a supplementary grant in 2004 for its outstanding accomplishments and innovations. He has published on wide range of issues in a number of Philosophical and Theological international journals, most notably, perhaps, in the International Catholic Review Communio. In 2003, he was invited to deliver a Plenary address in Rome at the Second World Conference on Metaphysics, and again in Bangkok at the First Asian World Congress on Metaphysics and Mysticism. Also in 2003, he initiated and directed a one-week seminar that brought together prominent intellectuals from Lebanon’s universities—bringing the proceedings to publication as editor in chief in a volume titled God in Multicultural Society. In 2006, Dr. Alam was awarded a Faculty exchange fellowship from Sweden’s Uppsala University, where he taught for one month in the Faculty of Theology. He is presently supervising a translation project that grew out of a cooperation between the Metanexus LSI in Lebanon, which he still directs, and the Etruscan Local Society of the Universities of Pisa, Perugia, and della Tuscia, chaired by Prof. Lodovico Galleni of the Università di Pisa. He is also presently working on a proposal to the John Templeton Foundation in the US that will enable him to continue working with scholars from Mofid, University in Iran, where he has been invited twice to give papers on the Catholic contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Utah, U.S.A., 1996.

B.A. in Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 1985.

Books

Alam, E.J. (2006). ed. God in Multicultural Society. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Alam, E.J. (2000) Out of the Shadows Into Reality: A Philosophical exposition of John H. Newman’s Grammar of Assent. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Articles or Chapters in Books

Alam, E.J. (2006). Globalization’s Myth of Multiculturalism, in God in Multicultural Society. 31-39. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Alam, E.J. (2006) Newman and Catholicism, in The Millennial Lecture Series: 2001-2002. 33-38. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Alam, E.J. (2004) Philosophical and Scientific Challenges to the Traditional Concept of Causality, in To The Mountain: Essays in Honour of Professor George F. McLean, William Sweet, Hu Yeping, editors. 215-232. Taiwan: Fu Jen Catholic University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

Edward J. Alam, “Einstein, Beauty and Natural Theology: Elementary Reflections,” Metanexus Online Journal www.metanexus.net  (July, 2005).  Also published in Palma Journal  (Special Issue 1: 2006) with the permission of Metanexus Online Journal.

Edward J. Alam, “Philosophy: The Bridge Between Religion and Science,” Metanexus Online Journal www.metanexus.net (July, 2004). Also published in Palma Journal (Special Issue 1: 2006) with the permission of Metanexus Online Journal.

Edward J. Alam, “Soul Matters: Apes, Anthropology and Aristotle,” Metanexus Online Journal www.metanexus.net (July, 2008).  Also chosen for publication as an outstanding Metanexus article by the “Science and Religion Book Series” titled Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion,published in Bucharest by the Curtea Veche Publishing House with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation.  The article will appear in the third volume of this book series in 2009.

Alam, E.J. (2006). Providence Matters. Palma Journal. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press, pp. 11-19.

Alam, E.J. (2006). Einstein, Beauty and Natural Theology.  Metanexus Online Journal (www.metanexeus.net)  Also published in Palma Journal Special Issue 1: 2006 (with the permission of Metanexus Online Journal).  Beirut: Notre Dame University Press, pp. 35-44.

Alam, E.J. (2006). Philosophy: The Bridge Between Religion and Science. Metanexus Online Journal (www.metanexeus.net). Palma Journal (Special Issue 1: 2006) (with the permission of Metanexus Online Journal) Beirut: Notre Dame University Press, pp. 73-80.

Alam, E.J. (2005). La Nueva Metafísica y la vida del mundo venidero: La Teología Cristiana de la Deificación con referencias al pensamiento de Fernando Rielo. tr., Robert Badillo, 73-85. Communio (AÑO 12 – No 1 – OTOÑO DEL 2005.

Alam, E.J., Eid, G. (2002). Descartes’ Discourse on Method:More Discourse? Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture, Vol. VI; 2&3, pp. 105-122.

Alam, E.J. (2002). The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.  The Journal of Philosophy and Religion,  pp.81-106.

Alam, E.J. (2002). Hinduism, Catholicism, and the Trinity. Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, pp. 87-102.

Conference Proceedings

Alam, E.J. (2007). The Cabbalistic Roots of Psychoanalysis: A Reading of David Bakan’s Literature. International Conference commemorating the thought of Sigmund Freud, on the 150th anniversary of his Birth, Lebanese Center for Societal Research. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Alam, E.J. (2006) “Certitude, Ethics, and Dialogue: Gaining Perspectives from the Past,” Ethics and Society, Lebanese Center for Societal Research. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.

Alam, E.J. (2005). The New Metaphyscis and the Life of the World to Come: A Little Journey in the Christian Doctrine of Deification with References to the Thought of Fernando Rielo. 19-31. Proceedings: Metaphysics 2003: Second World Conference. Rome: Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca.