Henry Philip Naser Diab - VU Filosofijos fakultetas

About

Associate Professor in Partnerships

Education: 1969 BA (hon.) Arabic and ME History, Lund University; 1971 MA (hon.) ME History, Lund University; 1974 PhD (unpublished thesis), Lund University.

Academic and administrative Position: 1985 – 2015 Senior lecturer at Lund University 2000 – 2015 Director of Studies; Chairman – Teaching Committe
2010 – 2014 Member of the Board at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University; Member of the Board of the Language Centre at the University of Jordan; 2006 – 2016 Lecturer at Malmö University; 2016 – Associate Professor at Vilnius University.

Program Design and Evaluation: 2003 – 2004 Internal evaluator of our BA courses in Arabic Studies. My self- evaluation report was submitted to the Swedish Council for Higher Education in their process of evaluating Arabic Studies at Swedish universities. 2004 – 2005 I was entrusted by the Dean of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology to restructure our BA courses in Arabic and ME studies. Thus, the program in Arabic Studies (PAS) was launched in 2005. It offers a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and/or ME studies. 2021 Reviewer of PhD dissertation “The Interaction of Traditional Religious Therapy and Western Psychotherapy in Islam: A Comparative-anthropological Study” by Dovile Valaite.

Courses in Bachelor program: Arabic Literature in Translation, Arabic language.

Areas of Research: Arabic literature, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

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Address: Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University, Universiteto St. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania

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Publications

Principal publications

• Diab, Henry, The Emergence of Transjordan 1921. (Unpublished PhD thesis), 1974.

• Historiska institutionen, Lund, 1974

• Diab, Henry, Ta’sis sharq al-urdun, 1921. English title: The Establishment of Transjordan 1921. Palestine Affairs nr. 50-51, 1975.

• Diab, H., - Wåhlin, L., The Geography of Education in Syria in 1882. Geografiska Annaler, vol. 65 B.2. Stockholm, 1983.

• Diab, H., - Haidar, J., Änglars porträtt: Modern svensk poesi. Beirut, 1999.

• Diab, Henry (Editor & Translator) En doft av mynta: Noveller av kvinnliga arabiska författare. English title: A Smell of Mint: Short Stories by Female Arab Authors, 2000.

• Diab, Henry (Editor & Translator) Och himlen var grå: Noveller av arabiska författare. English title: The World was Gray: Short Stories from the Arab World. Beirut, 2008.

• Diab, H., Surat al-mar’ah fi kitabat Sahar Khalifah, Samirah Azzam wa-Halah al-Nashif. English title: The Image of Women in the writings of Sahar Khalifah, Samirah Azzam and Halah al-Nashif. Bethlehem U. P. 2009.

• Diab, Henry, Användning av arabisk skönlitteratur i modersmålundervisning. English title: The Use of Arabic Literature in teaching. LMS – Lingua nr 3, Stockholm, 2011.

Scientific Events

Presentations at Conferences

• Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Conf. on Languages and Literature at Jordan U of Science & Technology, Jordan, 2016.

• “Dialogue Across Cultures and Dissciplines”: paper presented at a Workshop at the Refugges, Displaced Persons, and Forced Studies Center at Yarmouk University in Jordan, 2022.

Other Academic Activities

Academic Visits

1996 Coordinator “Arabic Language and Culture for Non-Native Speaker: A Med-Campus Project”. Participants: Dept of ME Languages, Lund U., Language Centre, U. of Jordan, Beir Zeit U., Centre for Contemporary ME Study, Odense U. and Bethlehem U.

2001 – 2008 Visiting Scholar on a Linnaeus/Palme Grant funded by the International Program in Stockholm, University of Jordan, 2 – 3 weeks/year

2006 Visiting Scholar on an Erasmus teaching mobility, Malta University, one week

2006 Visiting Scholar on a Linnaeus/Palme Grant funded by the International Program in Stockholm, American University in Beirut (AUB) 2 weeks

2008 – 2014 Visiting Scholar on a Linnaeus/Palme Grant funded by the International Program in Stockholm, Bethlehem University 2 – 3 weeks/year

2012 – 2016 Visiting Scholar on an Erasmus+ teaching mobility, Vilnius University, 1 – 2 weeks/year

Expert Activities

2005 – 2015 During the last two decades I have been instrumental in creating links and initiating programs for education and research funded by Lund University, the Swedish Council for HE and the European Commission such as TEMPUS, External Cooperation Window, Erasmus-Mundus and Erasmus+.

2015 – 2022 Member of the expert committee for assessment and accreditation of bachelor’s and master’s degree in Arabic Language and iterature at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT).

Science Promotion Activities

• 2020 An Interview with Henry Diab, 2020. Link

• Expatriates: Interview with Al-Jazeera, 2020. Link

Awards

• The Students’ Prize for excellent teaching, Lund University, 1994.

• Director of Studies of the Year, Faculty of Humanities and Theology at Lund University, 2004.

• Appreciation Award from the President of the University of Jordan, 2010.

• Appreciation Award from the President of Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2014.

• Honor Ceremony at Yarmouk University, Jordan in appreciation of my efforts to strengthen bilateral relations with Lund University, 2015.

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