Dr. Maria Bou Zeid

Chairperson of the Media Studies Department, Associate Professor, NDU

Chairperson of the Media Studies Department, Associate Professor, NDU

Maria Bou Zeid is an Associate Professor and the Chairperson of the Media Studies Department at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU). She is also the Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) - Beirut Office. Dr. Bou Zeid holds a Doctorate in Media Studies from Université Paris II, Assas, Paris, France and a D.E.S. in Journalism from the Lebanese University in collaboration with the French Press Institute-IFP and the Center for the Formation and Perfecting of Journalists-CFPJ, Paris, France. Her research interests include: Media Ethics and Media Education. She is also engaged in research on higher education in the Arab world tackling issues such as the efforts of Internationalization in the field of Higher Education in the MENA region along with the challenges that the Lebanese Education sector is currently facing.

Bou Zeid has also an extensive professional experience in the field of television production and broadcast journalism. She was the keynote speaker of the 47èmes assises de la presse francophone in Yerevan-Tsaghkadzor in October 2018 and the keynote speaker of the Deutsche Welle