DR. GUITA G. HOURANI

Dr. Guita Hourani is the Director of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLPS), and Director of the International Campaign of “Lebanon: Land of Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures” at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Lebanon. She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. She is presently Country of Origin Information Expert on Lebanon for the Fahamu Refugee Programme Oxford, England; Expert on Citizenship with the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship, Italy; Member of the Editorial Board of the Eastern Mediterranean Texts and Contexts Series at Abelian Academics; Director of Research at Carthage Center for Research and Information, Lebanon; and Senior Consultant with the Lebanese Development Network in Lebanon.  She was a Fellow of the Civic Education and Leadership Fellowship program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University in New York and a Fellow at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., USA. She also served as an Expert on Migration for the Maronite Patriarchal Synod. Dr. Hourani was an International Development Consultant at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.