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Professor Hoda Moukannas

Center for Languages and Translation
hoda.moukannas@ul.edu.lb
  • Rank
    Professor
  • Degree
    PhD
  • Specialization
    Languages and Communication Sciences
  • Major
    Linguistics, semiotics, communication and translation

Born in Beirut, 1956

 

Scientific Qualifications

  • PhD in linguistics, semiotics and communication from the University of Franche-Comté, France, in 1987;
  • Master's degree in French Language and Literature from the Faculty of Pedagogy at the Lebanese University in 1979;
  • Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Bourgogne, France, in 1977.

Professional Career

  • Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in 1995 and the Center for Languages and Translation in 1997, and Director of the Center between 2011 and 2014;
  • Founder of the Department of Spanish in 2012 and the Department of Chinese in 2014 as applied languages in the Center for Languages and Translation;
  • Founder of the Master's degree of Arabic as a Foreign and Applied Language in 2013 in cooperation with the University of Stendhal-Grenoble III;
  • Founder of the Office of Communication & Information in the Central Administration at the Lebanese University in 2019;
  • General Coordinator for the Office of Communication & Information at the Presidency of the Lebanese University since 2019;
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities & Social Sciences at the Lebanese University since 2015;
  • Coordinator of the Language & Translation Research Team at the Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities & Social Sciences of the Lebanese University between 2012 and 2018;
  • Supervising Professor of Postgraduate Diploma and Master's theses - Translation and Terminology at the Lebanese University since 2000;
  • Supervising Professor of PhD dissertations at the Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities & Social Sciences at the Lebanese University - Translation Sciences since 2011;
  • Translator for the speeches of the President of the Lebanese Republic (Arabic - French) between 2010 and 2014;
  • Research professor at a number of French universities, including Montpellier, Lyon, Bordeaux, the Higher Arab Institute for Translation (HAIT) – Algeria, and the Doctoral School at the University of Algiers, Oran and Constantine.
  • Author of numerous research articles and translations in France, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Italy and a number of Arabic translations;
  • Awarded the “Order of Civil Merit” from His Majesty the King of Spain, Felipe VI in 2015.