Bishara EBEID

* Formation

2023: Habilitation in 10/N1 - Ancient Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African cultures; Arabic Language and Literature (L-OR/12).

2022:Habilitation in 11/A4 - Science of books and documents, history of religions; History of Christianity and of the Churches (M-STO/07). 

Feb. 2015- Dec. 2019: Doctorate in Theology, Aristotle University Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece, New Testament and Apocryphal Literature, Thesis: “Pontius Pilate: References inside and outside the New Testament”.

Feb. 2012-June 2014: PhD in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences, summa cum laude, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy, Patristic Theology, Coptic, Syriac and Arabic Christian literature, Dissertation: “The Christological ‘dialogue’ in the Arabic language between Melkite (Saʻīd ʼIbn Baṭrīq), Coptic (Sawīrus ʼIbn al-Muqaffaʻ) and Nestorian (Elias of Nisibin) Churches during the 10th century”.

Oct. 2009- Feb. 2012: Masters (Licenza) in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences, summa cum laude, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy, Patristic Theology, Coptic, Syriac and Arabic Christian Literature.

Sep. 2005 - Jn 2009: Bachelors in Theology summa cum laude, Aristotle University Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

 * Work experience:

April. 2024-Present: Full time Position (RTT): Assistant Professor (tenure -track) at Ca’ Foscary University, Department of Asian and North African Studies- Venice Italy.

Feb. 2019-Feb 2024: Full time Position (RTD-A): Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscary University, Department of Asian and North African Studies- Venice Italy.

Oct. 2019-present: Visiting professor at CIELS: Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Padova-Italy [Courses: Arabic language, II and III levels]

Oct. 2017 – Jan. 2018: Visiting Professor at Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) – Rome [Courses: Neo-Calcedonism during the VI and VII cen.; Theology of the Liturgical Commentaries in Eastern Christianity; Arabic Language I,  Arabic Language II].

Oct. 2017 – Feb. 2018: Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamistic Studies (PISAI) - Rome [Courses: Arabic Language of Various Levels].

Oct. 2017 – Jan. 2018: Visiting Professor at the Theological Faculty of Apulia (Italy) [Course: Trinitarian Theology according to Orthodox Church].

Feb. - June 2017: Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University (PUG) – Rome [Course: Interreligious Dialogue and Apologetic of Arab-Chrostians].

Oct. 2016 - June 2017: Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamistic Studies (PISAI) - Rome [Courses: Arabic Language of Various Levels].

Oct. 2016 - June 2017: Visiting Professor at Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) – Rome [Courses: Arab-Christian Theology; Christological Controversies in Syriav Language, Arab-Christians Historiography].

Oct. 2015 - Feb. 2016: Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute  (PIO) – Rome [Neo-Calcedonism and Monophysitism during the VI and VII cen.].

February - June 2015: Collaborated as Assistant Professor to Prof. M. Pampaloni sj. [Course: “Le controversie cristologiche in lingua siriaca V-VII sec.”], Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2015: Collaborated as Assistant Professor to Prof. M. Pampaloni sj. [Seminar: “Il cammino del consenso cristologico tra le Chiese calcedonesi e le Chiese non calcedonesi”], Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Oct. 2014 - Dec. 2015: Researcher at a project regarding Islam and Christianity in Europe and the Middle East today entitled:  “Conoscere il metticito, governare il cambiamento”, OASIS foundation, Milan Italy.

Oct. 2011 - June 2015: Teaching Arabic language at the Arabic school of the Pontifical Maronite College and the Maronite Community of Rome.

* Member of Commission of Doctorate Dissertations:

First moderator, Candidate: Geoffrey Abdallah, Dissertation’s title: “The Principles for Trnaslating Liturgical Texts: The Maronite Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles II from Syriac Sources into English”, Pontifical Oriental Institute-Rome, 4/12/2020.

First moderator, Candidate: Mervat Kelli, Dissertation’s title: “Kitāb ’Uūl al-Dīn: 'Il Libro dei fondamenti della religione' di Dānyāl ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb. Studio, edizione critica e traduzione”, Pontifical Oriental Institute-Rome, 4/11/2020.

Second moderator, Candidate: Georgios Anestis Keselopoulos, Dissertation’s title: “Η ΠΡΟΘΕΣΗ: Μελέτη Λειτουργική, Ιστορική – Θεολογική 8ος – 15ος αιώνας”, Pontifical Oriental Institute-Rome, 8/06/2017.

Second moderator, Candidate: Samira Youssef Sidarous, Dissertation’s title: “L’esegesi biblico-patristica di Rm 8,1-39 di Ibn Kātib Qayṣar: Descrizione dei codici A e Ω, edizione critica e traduzione dell’interpretazione della pericope”, Pontifical Oriental Institute-Rome, 6/12/2016.

Third moderator, Candidate: Sheeba Sebastian SST, Dissertation’s title: “The Mystery of the Triple Gradated Church. A Theological Analysis of the Kṯāḇā d-Massaqāṯā (Book of Steps) with Particular Reference to the Writings of Aphrahat and John the Solitary” , Pontifical Oriental Institute-Rome, 27/01/2017.

Co-director and joint member, Candidate: Anna Canton, Dissertation’s title: Al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl e al-Masīḥ ʿĪsā b. Maryam. I segni dell’Ora nel Kitāb al-taḏkira di Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī, Co-director: prof. Samuela Pagani, Department of Oriental Studies (ISO), Sapienza-University of Rome In co-tutela with Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies and – Rome, 20/05/2023.

Third moderator, Candidate: André Bressant de Oliveira SJ, Dissertation’s title: E VOI, CHI DITE CHE IO SIA? Lo sviluppo della coscienza cristologica nei Dialoghi di Vienna e nei Dialoghi Siriaci, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Faculty of Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences, Rome-Italy, 23/06/2023.

Third moderator, Candidate: Shajan Varghese, Dissertation’s title: Fasting in the understanding of Jacob of Serugh and his tradition, with special emphasis on Mimro 133, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Faculty of Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences, Rome-Italy, 15/02/2024.

* Member in international editorial board and Commissions of Trust:

Member fo the editorial board of Collectanea Christiana Orientalia ISSN: 2386-7442 [https://journals.uco.es/cco/Direccion]

Member of the Scientific and Advisory Board: Center for the Study of Lived Religion, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Member of the International Editorial Board of The Al-Qasemi Journal of Islamic Studies ISSN 2519-6200 [http://www.qsm.ac.il/ISJournal].

* Member in Associations and Groups of Research:

Member of IOTA, International Orthodox Theological Association [https://iota-web.org/home/].

Member of GRAC, Group of Arab Christian Research (In Italy) [http://www.grac.it/home/index.php/collana-pcac-it/3-patrimonio-culturale-arabo-cristiano].

Member of SYRIACA, Association of Syriacists in Italy.

Member of CEM, Centro di Studi sul Medio Oriente Contemporaneo [Centre of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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*Lectures, Courses and Seminar Participation:

24 April 2024

Lecture: "El texto coránico en los autores árabes cristianos medievales".
Lecture series: "Aula Árabe Universitaria 5: Pasaporte al mundo árabe”.
Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain

03 April 2024

Online lecture: "Patristic Quotations in Miaphysite and East-Syrian Arab Authors: The Case of Ephrem the Syrian", part of the Theology in Arabic Seminars, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

19-20 March 2023

Conference, 3rd Conference on Typarabica Project: “Towards a Printed-Book Culture in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Levant”
Paper, “Makarios III Ibn al-Zaʿīm and the Council of Florence”
Academia Română, Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene
Bucharest-Romania

3 November 2023

Conference, Incontro sulla storia e letteratura palestinese
Paper, “La letteratura palestinese ieri e oggi”
Libreria Librati,
Padova-Italy

23 October 2023

Conference, Vedere attraverso le parole: letture da grandi libri della letteratura araba
Paper, "Il cieco come figura rivoluzionaria nel racconto La medaglia della raccolta La camicia di lana di Tawfīq Yūsuf ʿAwwād"
Aula 23, San Sebastiano,
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University
Venice-Italy

9-13 October 2023

Conference, Christian Orient - undiscovered heritage of humanity
Paper, "Christianity in Holy Land: Undiscovered Contribution to Interreligious Dialogue"
Faculty of Theology,
University of Opole
Opole, Poland

11-14 June 2023

Conference, North American Syriac Symposium 2023 “Syriac at the Center”
Paper, “The Anti-Tritheist Florilegium in MSS BL Add 14532 and 14538 Revisited”
Panel, Theology
Yale University
USA

19 April 2023

Conference, I Jornada de Literatura Oriental: Rostros de Dios en la Literatura Oriental
Paper, The Divine is Hidden in a Body, the Invisible becomes Visible Ontological and Moral Dimensions of Christ Incarnation
according to Sāwīrūs Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kitāb al-Bayān al-Muḫtaṣar fī al-Īmān
Uiversidad san Damas
Facultad de Literatura Cristiana y Clasica San Justino
Madrid-Spain

30 March-1 April 2023

Conference, Florilegia Patristica: Polemics and Erudition in the Christian Denkraum of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Paper, Making a Patristic Florilegium: The Syriac Trinitarian Florilegium in Ms. BL Add. 12155 and Peter of Callinicum’s Contra Damianum
Sala Berengo, Palazzo Ca’ Foscari,
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University
Venice-Italy

24 March 2023

Conference, Le minoranze cristiane in Medio Oriente 
Paper, Le comunità cristiane bizantine e siriache in Medio Oriente: Una visione panoramica
Theatre de la Ville
Aosta, Italy

24 October 2022

Conference, Il Simbolo niceno-costantinopolitano in versione araba: storia, filologia, teologia, filosofia
Paper, “Patrimonio Arabo Cristiano: contesto e caratteristiche”
Università degli studi di Palermo
Dipartimento Culture e Società
Offficina di Studi Medievali
Palermo-Italy

22-27 August 2022

Conference, 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
Paper, “The Divine Substance as Aristotle’s Substantia Prima: Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī and His Trinitarian Doctrine”
Panel, Between Philosophy and Theology: The Aristotelian Reception and the Palamite Doctrine
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Padova
Italy

4-9 July 2022

Conference, XIII Symposium Syriacum and XI International Congress of Arab Christian Studies.

Paper I, “The Trinitarian Florilegium in the Ms. BL Add. 12155 and Peter of Callinicum's Contra Damianum”.
Panel, The Transformation of the Greek Fathers: Between Patristic Florilegia and West Syriac Literature.

Paper II, “Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī and his Trinitarian Doctrine: New Considerations”.
Panel, Individual papers.

Chairing, two panels of individual papers.

INALCO
Paris-France

21-23 June 2022

Conference, Forms Functions of Legal Discource Intertexuality in Works of Jewish and Islamic Law and Literature.
Paper, "Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Fiqh al-Naṣrāniyyah: Translating and Recalling Legal Texts of the East Syriac Tradition in an Arabo-Muslim Context".
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Recht und Literature SFB 1385 Project
Münster-Germany

26 October 2021

Conference, Il dialogo interreligioso e l’Islam europeo: sfide e nuove opportunità.
Paper, "Dalla Apologetica del Medioevo alla Convivenza di Oggi: Il Contributo del Patrimonio Arabo Cristiano".
KAICIID Foundation, Facoltà Teologica di Lugano
Lugano- Switzerland

30 Aug. - 2 Sept. 2021 

Conference, European Academy of Religion 4th Annual Conference
Chair of Panel, “Religious Experience and COVID-19: rituality and praxis in Europe after pandemic”
Online-Room 6,
Münster-Germany

16 July 2020

Conference, The Lecture Series: The Levant, cradle of Abrahamic religions 
Paper, Principles of Dialogue according to Arab-Christian texts dealing with Islam

Zoom-conference, ISACCL, Bucharest Romania

30 Jan-1 Feb 2020

Conference, Florilegia Syriaca. Mapping a Knowledge – Organizing Practice in the Syriac World, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.

Paper, “Syriac Dogmatic Florilegia and Christian Arabic Writings. The Case of Abū Rā’iṭah al-Takrītī”.

24 January 2020

Conference, The Christian Levant (In italian), Foundation Terra Santa, Ambrosian Library, Milan, Italy.

Paper, “Syriac Christianity: Panoramic picture”.

25 March 2019

Conference, Presentation of the Project ERC-Starting Grant “FLOS: Florilegia Syriaca. The Intercultural Dissemination of Greek Christian Thought in Syriac and Arabic in the First Millennium CE”. University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.

Paper, “Tritheism, Florilegia and Arab-Christian Heritage: The case of Abū Rā’iṭah al-Takrītī”.

9-12 January 2019:

Conference, IOTA: International Orthodox Theological Association. Inaugural Conference. Iasi, Romania.

Paper, “Can the Qur’ān be read in the Light of Christ? Reflections on some Melkite authors and their use of the Holy Book of Islam”, Panel, Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Islam

Chairing Panel, Middle Eastern Christianity: Past and Present

4-6 January 2019:

Conference, V BVP Theological Colloquium: Monasticism Meeting Modernity, Oriental Christian and Indian Perspective. Bethany Vedavijnana Peeth, Institute of Oriental Theology, Pune, India.

Paper, “Christology and Monasticism. The case of Philoxenus of Mabbug”.

16-17 November 2018:

Conference, Christian Arabs. Heritage and actuality of their contribution to the history of civility (in Italian), Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo, Ialy.

Paper, “Elias of Nisibis and his use of the doctrine on the divine attributes” (in Italian), Panel, The cultural heritage of Christian Arabs.

5-6 March 2018:

Conference, The European Academy of Religion: First Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy.

Paper, “Arab Christian Heritage and the Dialogue with Islam: the Contribution of Some Classical Texts of Melkite Authors”, Panel, “Eastern Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue: the Road Not taken?”.

8-10 January 2018:
 
Conference, World Religions World Church Conference,  University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway, Rome, Italy.

Paper, “Dialogue and Orthodox Theology: The Importance of Inter-Christian and Inter-religious Dialogue According to Ignatius IV” .
 

10-11 October  2017:

Conference, The International Conference on Theology and Violence entitled “Violenza dove antico dolore: Teologia come mediazione dal racconto alla luce della vita”, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Paper, “God my God, why have you forsaken me? Reflection on the suffering of man through personal experiences” (In Italian).
 

16 September 2017:

Conference, Seminar of “Syriaca”, the meeting of Syriacists in Italy that was about the Synodicon Orientale: “Il Synodicon Orientale (V-VII sec.): Modelli ecclesiastici, disciplina canonica, dottrine teologiche e declinazioni politiche della chiesa siro-orientale”, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Paper, “The Synod of Mar Gewargis I in 676 and his Christological letter: an answer to the controversy of Martyrius?” (In Italian).

2 August 2017 :          

Lecture,“Despite fundamentalism: The relations between Christians and Muslims in the eyes of political Islam and jihadism” (In Italian).

Biblioteca “A. Manzoni”- C.I.F., Cogoleto, Liguria, Italy.

12-14 July 2017:

Conference, The Aram Forty Sixth International Conference: “Melkite Christianity, 1st -19th cen.”,  Oxford University, Oriental Institute, Oxford, England.

Paper, “The Melkite Orthodoxy: The Six Ecumenical Councils according to Euthychius of Alexandria’s Annales and Agapius of Mabbug’s Universal History”

18-22 June 2017:

Conference, The European Academy of Religion: Ex Null Conference, Bologna, Italy.

Paper, “Religion and state in the current crisis of the Middle East: Some proposals from Lebanon” (In Italian), Panel, “The Right to Religious Freedom between the Two Mediterranean Shores”.
 

Paper, “The Jacobite Church between imperial politics and doctrinal preservation: The formation of a ‘national’ identity” (In Italian), Panel, “Constructing Identities in Ancient Oriental Christianity”.
 

13 June 2017:

Lecture, “Christians in Muslim land and Muslims in Christian land according to the definitions and opinions of radical Islam” (In Italian). 

Centro Mariapoli of Focolar Movement, Castelgandolfo, Italy.

29 May – 2 June 2017:

Seminar, On the “Eucharist” organized by the Institute of ecumenical and patristic theology “San Nicola” of the Theological Faculty of Apulia, Luppiano, Italy.

Lecture, “The Eucharistic celebration, from the biblical narrations to the tradition of the Fathers: An orthodox approach” (In Italian). 

20 May 2017:

Lecture, “Islam and we? Getting to know each other and meeting each other” (In Italian).

Parish of S. Greogorio VII Papa, Rome, Italy.

8 April 2017:

Conference, 2nd Symposium of al-Qasimi Academy on Islamic Studies, Al-Qasimi Academy, Baqa al-Gharbiyya, Israel.

Paper, “The influence between Islamic Kalām and Christian Theology: the case of the doctrine on the divine attributes” (In Arabic).

19-21 August 2016:    

Conference, 12th Symposium Syriacum, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Paper, “The “two-qnomē” Christology prior to 612 AD and its relation to the Greek-speaking ‘Nestorians’: An analysis of Ḥabīb’s chapters and the Nestorian doctrine in Leontius of Byzantium and Leontius of Jerusalem”.

22-24 August 2016:

Conference, 10th International Arab-Christian Congress,  Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

Paper, “The Trinitarian doctrine of Ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib: An interpretation of Babai the Great’s metaphysical system in the world of Islam”.

27-28 July 2016:

Summer School Program, “Arabic Christianity: History, Culture, Language, Theology, Liturgy”, Institut für Missionswissenschaft und Außereuropäische Theologie, Katholische-Theologische Fakultät, Westfälische Wilhekm-Universität, Münster, Germany.

Lectures,

Christological debate between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Churches during the 10th and 11th century.

Arab Christian Christology and its relationship to the Ecumenical Movement today.

Muslim-Christian Dialogue through the writings of Arab-Christian Palestinians during the first century of Islamic Conquest

12 March 2016:

Conference, 1st Symposium of al-Qasimi Academy on Islamic Studies: “The Arabic and Muslim Tradition of Palestine”,  Al-Qasimi Academy, Baqa al-Gharbiyya, Israel.

Paper, “The Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the first Arabic apologetic works of Palestinian Christians” (In Arabic).

29 February 2016:

Conference, Meeting of the Biblicists of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lecture, “Pontius Pilate in the New Testament and the Apocryphal tradition” (In Greek).

8 December 2015:

Lecture, “Christians in Holy Land throw the eyes of a witness” (In Italian with Polish translation),

Wydzialu Teologicznego, Uniwersytetu Opolskiego,  Opole, Poland.

5 May 2015:

Lecture, “The Hope and the Heartbreak: The Challenges of Modern Christians in the Land Where Jesus Preached”

Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, USA.

27-29 April 2015:

Conference, International Congress: “Θρησκεία και Βία” (Religion and Violence), Aristotle University Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Paper, “Muslim Fundamentalism and its relations to Christians: The views of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and Isis” (In Greek).

15-17 April 2015:

Conference, III Arabic Christian Literature Conference “Oriente Cristiano Y Mundo Arabe” (Christian East and the Arabic World), San Justino - Faculty of Classic and Christian Literature, Ecclesiastic University of San Damaso, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain.

Paper, “Christianity in the Holy Land: Past, Present and Future” .

6 February 2015:

Conference, III Symposium Syro-Arabicum, Kaslik University (USEK) and the Centre for Arab Christian Documentation and Research (CEDRAC-USJ), Kaslik, Lebanon.

Paper, “Saʻīd Ibn Baṭrīq, the Theologian. New Considerations Upon his Historical Work, the Annals”

 
22 February 2015:
 
Seminar, “Il Cammino del consenso cristologico tra le chiese calcedonesi e non calcedonesi” (The Way of the Christological consensus among the Calcedonese and not Calcedonese churches), Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

 
Lecture, “Christological Debate between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Churches in the light of Arab Christian Theology and its Contribution to Ecumenical Movement” (In Italian).

24 October 2014:

Seminar, “Teologia dell’Oriente Cristiano. Panorama storico” (Theology of the Christian East. Historical Panorama), Pontifical University Gregoriana, Rome, Italy.

Lecture, “The Church of Jerusalem and the first three ecumenical councils” (In Italian).

4 September 2014:

Lecture, “Arab-Christian literature and the role of the Christians in the making of the Arabic culture” (In Arabic).

The Center of Carmel, Haifa, Israel.

28 May 2014:

Lecture, “Dialogue between Muslims and Christians - the Organisation of Adyan in Lebanon” (In Greek).

Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

23 May 2014:

Master students Lecture, “Methodology and Writing of a Thesis” (In Greek).

Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

8 April 2014:

Lecture in Course, “Oriente Cristiano” (Christian East) by Prof Milan Zust SJ., Pontifical University Gregoriana, Rome, Italy.

Lecture, “The Christians in the Middle East” (In Italian).

3 April 2014:

Presentation, “Christians in Israel”.

Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome, Italy.

22, 29 January 2014:

Lecture, “The progress of the Christological doctrine after the Council of Chalcedon” (In Italian).

Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

28 May 2013:

Lecture, “Christological doctrine in the synods of the Church of the East” (In Italian)

Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy.

8 April 2013:

Masters Students Lecture, “Christians in the Middle East” (In Greek).

Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

1 April 2013:   

Lecture in Course, “Gnosticism” by Prof. Kharalampos Atmatzidis, Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lecture, “Gospel of the Wife of Jesus” (In Greek).

27 March, 3 April 2013:

Masters Students Lecture, “The critical edition of Arabic –Christian works and manuscripts and the first Arabic apology of MS Arabic Sinai 154” (In Greek).

Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

27 March, 3 April 2013:          

Lecture in Course, “Interfaith dialogue” by Prof. Aggeliki Ziaka,  Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lecture, “Dialogue between Muslims and Christians” (In Greek).

29 March 2013:

Lecture in Course, “The religions of the East” by Prof. Panagiotis Pakhis and Prof. Aggeliki Ziaka,  Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lecture, “The Islamic Religion in the eyes of Arab Christians” (In Greek).

26 March 2013:

Lecture, “The symbolism of the groom in the Christian tradition” (In Greek).

A.E.A.H.K. Crete, Greece.

20 November 2012:    

Lecture, “Christians in Middle East - Writing a Theology in Arabic”

Aristotle University, Faculty of Theology, Thessaloniki, Greece.

19-23 June 2011:

Conference, “Christian Presence in the Middle East - Theological and Political challenges”, Volos Academy, WCC, Volos, Greece.

Paper, “Christians in Israel”.

*Organization of scientific meetings

2023: 

Organizing the conference “Aristotelian Philosophy and Zoology in the Abbasid Caliphate”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, La Statale, 11 December 2023.

Co-organizing with prof. Antonella Ghersetti and Prof. Andrea Facchin the conference “Vedere attraverso le parole: letture da grandi libri della letteratura araba”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice-Italy, 23 October 2023.

Organizing the international conference: “Bible and Arab Christianity: Translation, Interpretation, and Context”
28-29 April 2023
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Syriaca: Italian Association for Syriac Studies 

Co-organizing with prof. Simone Sibilio a conference with the Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan
30 March 2023
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University
Venice-Italy 

2022-2023: Co-organizing with prof. Emiliano Fiori the “Flos Lectures-Second Series”. 
Online lectures concerning topics related to Syriac and Arab-Christian Theology, Patristic, Metaphysics and History 
Held once a month, online, November 2022-February 2023 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNLmVXlAW2ekyZMnoc9s17A  
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University
Venice-Italy 

2021: Co-organizing with prof. Emialiano Fiori the “Flos Lectures”,
Online lectures concerning topics related to Syriac and Arab-Christian Theology, Patristic, Metaphysics and History
Held once a month, online, March-July 2021
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice-Italy

2020:  Co-organizing with prof. Emialiano Fiori the international Conference (workshop) “Florilegia Syriaca. Mapping a Knowledge – Organizing Practice in the Syriac World”
Held in Venice, 30 Jan-1 Feb 2020.
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice-Italy

*Grants and Scholarships

2019-presnet: Grant for preparing and publishing the Arabic text of the Book of Demonstration by Elias of Nisibis, with English translation, comments, and introduction,
Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Arabes Chrétiennes, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth-Lebanon.

2018-2019: Postdoc scholarship, Project: Syriac Christology,
Pontifical Oriental Institute, Faculty of Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences, Rome-Italy.

2016-2018: Grant for preparing and publishing the Arabic text of the Commentary on the Creed by Elias of Nisibis, with English translation, comments, and introduction,
Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Arabes Chrétiennes, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth-Lebanon.

2018: Grant for publishing my monograph La Tunica di al-Masīḥ. La Cristologia delle grandi confessioni cristiane dell’Oriente nel X e XI secolo,
John Paul II Foundation, Florence, Italy.

2009-2014: Scholarship for MA and PhD studies, 
Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration with the Orthodox Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches,
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Rome, Vatican City-Italy.

2004-2009: Scholarship for BA studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
Hellenic Republic of Greece, Athens-Greece.

* Peer-Reviewing and evaluation of academic products

August 2023: Peer-reviewing an article for the E-Journal “AOQU (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoqu)” . 

July-August 2023: Peer-reviewing an article for the Journal “Le Forme e la Storia”.

July-August 2023: Reviewing the doctoral dissertation “Il Libro degli animali dalla Crema della sapienza di Barhebraeus. Edizione critica dei primi due capitoli e indagine sulle fonti” of Martina Galatello, Sapienza University of Rome.

June-July 2023: Peer-reviewing a volume for the series “Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity” of Brill, Leiden, Chief Editor: Ken Parry, Macquarie University.

May 2023: Evaluation of a PhD project submitted to the Faculty of Ecclesiastical Eastern Sciences of the Pontifical Oriental Institute - Rome.

Dicembre 2022; August 2023: Evaluation of a research project submitted to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

November 2022: Evaluation of a PhD project submitted to the Faculty of Theology of the Gregorian University - Rome.

February 2022: Peer-reviewing a volume for the series “Eastern Christian Texts” of Brill, Leiden, Chief Editor: Emiliano Fiori, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.

November 2021: Peer-reviewing a paper for the volume Peace and the Arab Cultural Production, ed. Fernanda Fischione and Arturo Monaco, Sapienza University Press (SUE).

July 2021: Peer-reviewing a paper for the journal “Quaderni di Studi Arabi” ISSN 121-2306 (https://brill.com/view/journals/qsa/qsa-overview.xml?language=en).

August 2021: Evaluation of scientific products (10 in number) for ANVUR – VQR 2015-19 (valuation of Research Quality) (https://vqr.cineca.it/web/app.php).

September 2021: Peer-reviewing a paper for the journal “Religions” ISSN: 2077-1444 (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions). 

* Languages:

Modern languages:

Arabic, Hebrew, English, Greek, Italian, German (Written, read and spoken fluently).

French, Spanish (Read and understand very well).

Ancient languages:

Ancient Greek, Coptic, Syriac-Aramaic (very good).

Latin (good).