Professor Ameen Albert Rihani
Writer, Critic, and Researcher. Prof. Rihani held a key position at Notre Dame University as Vice President of Academic Affairs. He also is author of several articles and books on various subjects in Arabic and English and is curator of the Ameen Fares Rihani’s Museum, Freike. He will be talking about his latest book on the various translations of the Bible.
Dr. William Davis
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Colorado College, USA: Dr. Davis’ scholarship focuses largely on the Romantic period, with emphasis on relations between German and British Romanticism, as well as on connections between philosophy and literature. He has also published on issues of literary theory and currently works on connections between technology and cultural production.
Francesco Medici
Literary Critic and Translator: Mr. Medici is one of the leading experts and translators in Italy of Gibran’s work, as well as author of numerous critical interventions on other eminent Arab writers who emigrated to the US between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, in particular Mikhail Naimy, Elia Abu Madi, and Ameen Rihani.
CISH-UNESCO Representative
Details will be announced soon.