Adivsory Team

1. Dr. Soraya Mouloudji, Professor of Translation and Human Studies, Minister of Culture and Arts, Algeria

   

   Email: sorayamouloudji@m-culture.gov.dz

   Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ar&user=RyzUIg8AAAAJ

   Currently, the Minister of Culture and Arts of Algeria. She previously served as Acting Director of the National Research Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Dr. Mouloudji holds a Ph.D. with a specialization in Translation and Human Studies. She also possesses a Certificate of University Qualification from Wahran University. Her academic rank is of a research professorial category. From 2003 to 2010, Dr. Mouloudji worked as a lecturer in various departments at the College of Arts, Languages, and Fine Arts. Throughout her career, she has directed and participated in numerous scientific and research projects. Additionally, she holds the position of Director at the National Observatory for Socio-Economic Studies and Research, which is affiliated with the National Coordination Office for the Protection of Society.

2. Prof. Bishara Khader, Professor of Political Sciences, Director of the Center for Arab Studies and Research, University of Louvain, Belgium

   

   Email: bichara.khader@uclouvain.be

   Professor of Political, Economic and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain (1974-2014), Founder and Director of the Center for Studies and Research on the Contemporary Arab World (1974-2014). He is currently a visiting Professor at various Arab and European universities, and a member of the Senior Group for Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Dialogue (European Presidency 2003-2004). He has received the following awards: the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize (1981), the Mediterranean Culture Prize (2012) and the Ibn Khaldun Prize (2019).He has published numerous articles and books in French, Arabic and Spanish. Some of his books are Europe and the Gulf Countries, Distant Partners (1994), Europe for the Mediterranean: From Barcelona to Barcelona 1995-2008, (2009).

3. Prof. Recep Senturk, Dean of the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

   

   Email: deansoffice.cis@hbku.edu.qa

   SCOPUS author ID: 13403040700

   Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1moM3VEAAAAJ&hl=ar

   Currently, the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University. He was the former founding President of Ibn Haldun (Khaldun) University in Istanbul (2017-2021). Prof. Şentürk holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, specializing in Civilization Studies, Sociology and Islamic Studies with a focus on social networks, human rights and modernization in the Islamic world. He served as a researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM) in Istanbul, and the founding director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. He is the president of the Ibn Khaldun international society, and is a member in the editorial boards of several academic journals. Among his works in English are: “Narrative Social Structure: the Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505” (in Turkish); “Open Civilization: Towards a Society and a Multi-civilized World”; “Ibn Khaldun: Contemporary Readings”; “Malcolm X: the Struggle for Human Rights and Social Memory”; “The Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505”. His works have been translated into Arabic, Japanese and Spanish.

4. Prof. Ezz El-Din El-Bouchikhi, Professor of Linguistics Studies, Executive Director of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language, Qatar

   

   Email: aze-eddine.bouchikhi@dohainstitute.org

   Acquired a Doctorate degree in Linguistics from Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco. He held the position of Professor of Higher Education, Deputy Dean for Scientific Research Affairs at the same college, Director of the University Center for Teaching Arabic Language and its Civilization, Director of the Laboratory of Linguistic Studies and Computer Applications, and others. He worked as a visiting Professor and Lecturer at Qatar University, and he was the Director of the Arabic Linguistics and Lexicology Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a lecturer there. He is currently the Executive Director of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language Project. He is a collaborating expert with a number of regional centers and organizations in Rabat, Tunisia, and others. He is an expert reviewer in a number of Arab universities and scientific journals. He has published a number of books and researches in the fields of Linguistics, Lexicography, Terminology and Translation.

5. Prof. Saad Al-Bazei, Professor of English Literature, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

   

   Email: albazei53@yahoo.com

   A critic, thinker and translator, he obtained a PhD in English and American literature from Purdue University in 1983. He served as a Professor of Comparative English Literature at King Saud University in Riyadh since 1984. He was a former member of the Saudi Shura Council. He held a number of positions such as the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Riyadh Daily" and the Editor-in-Chief of the second edition of the World Arabic Encyclopedia, and a member of the board of the International Fund for the Support of Culture at UNESCO. Among his books: “The Literary Critic’s Guide to Illuminating more than Seventy Contemporary Critical Trends and Terms, with Dr. Megan Al-Ruwaili” (2002); “Reception of the Other: The West in Modern Arab Criticism” (2004); “The Jewish Component in Western Civilization” (2007); “Cultural Difference and the Culture of Difference” (2008); “Concept Migration: Readings in Culture Transformations” (2021); “Milestones of Modernity: Western Modernism in Sixty Foundational Texts from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century” (2022).

6. Prof. Fathi Al-Maskini, Professor of Higher Education in Contemporary Philosophy, University of Tunis, Tunisia

   

   Email: msknfth@yahoo.fr

   A writer, thinker, and Professor of Higher Education in Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Tunisia. His books include; “Hegel and the End of Metaphysics” (1997); “Critique of Hermeneutical Reason” (2005); “Religion and Empire: On the Enlightenment of the Last of Man” (2015); “Migration to Humanity” (2016) and others. Among his translations: “On Friedrich’s Genealogy of Ethics” by Nietzsche (2010), and “Being and Time” by Martin Heidegger (2013). “Gender Anxiety: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, by: Judith Butler (2022), and “Alain Badiou on the tongue of Alain Badiou” (2022). He Published many articles and studies in Tunisian, Arab and foreign magazines and newspapers. He won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation in 2013.

7. Prof. Farid Al-Attas, Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Malaysia

   

   Email: alatas@nus.edu.sg

   ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3416-1967

   SCOPUS author ID: 6602952845

   Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4RrL_nYAAAAJ&hl=ar

   A Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also the head of the Malay Studies Department at NUS from 2007 to 2013. He lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies prior to joining NUS. His areas of interest are the sociology of Islam, social theory, religion and reform, and intra- and inter-religious dialogue. His most recent books are Ibn Khaldun (Oxford University Press, 2013 and Applying Ibn Khaldun (Routledge, 2014). He is currently researching on Salafism in the Malay world.

8. Dr. Heba Raouf,Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ibn Khaldun University, Turkey

   

   Email: eba.raouf2@gmail.com

   SCOPUS author ID: 57193790646

   A lecturer in Political Theory at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo. Currently she is working at Ibn Khaldun University in Turkey. She was previously a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, at Georgetown University in 2012, and at the London School of Economics 2015-2016. She published several studies in English and Arabic on the concepts of citizenship, global democracy, global civil society, and Islamic epistemology. She is a well-known researcher in the field of women, and issues of men and women from an Islamic perspective. Among her Arabic publications are two works entitled: “The Political Imagination of Islamists” and “Towards a New Urbanism.”