Conference 2023


Dr Elie Dannaoui
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Associate Professor
University of Balamand, Lebanon

Elie Dannaoui, Associate professor of Church History at Saint John Institute of Orthodox Theology and Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Balamand. Dr. Dannaoui holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences – History from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (Italy), a Master of Educational Technology from the University of Poitiers (France). He pursued postgraduate studies in computer science at the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et dAérotechnique in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (France). Dr. Dannaoui completed his undergraduate studies at Saint John of Damascus Institute of Orthodox Theology – Balamand and graduated with a Bachelor of Orthodox Theology. He is currently teaching Church History at the Saint John Institute of Orthodox Theology and history of Civilizations at the Lebanese Academy of Arts ALBA at the University of Balamand. Dr. Dannaouis research interest in the history of Arabic New Testament translations led to the publication of PAVONe, an online database of Gospel manuscripts copied between the 9th and 19th centuries. His research includes the Arabic Christian Literature in general and focuses on the Ottoman period. Dr. Dannaoui is member of the editorial board of ACTS (Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies) published by Brill and Biblical and the Apocryphal Christian Arabic Text Series - Gorgias Press.