Mona Fayad

Mona Fayad
Mona Fayad during a TV interview on MTV Lebanon's "Beirut Al Yawm" program in November 2019
Mona Fayad during a TV interview on MTV Lebanon's "Beirut Al Yawm" program in November 2019
Born1950 (age 74–75)
Southern Lebanon
LanguageFrench

Dr. Mona Fayad (Arabic: منى فياض, born 1950) is a francophone Lebanese intellectual, writer, and political activist. She is one of the most prominent Shiite opponents of Hezbollah. She is a professor of psychology at the Lebanese University.

Biography

She teaches psychology at the Lebanese University in Beirut.[1][2] She is a member of the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers.[3] In 2001, she was a founding member of the Democratic Renewal Movement headed by Nassib Lahoud, and was a member of committee until 2010.

Opposition to Hezbollah

Fayad is one of the most prominent Shiite opponents of Hezbollah.[4][5]

She became known to the public during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war between Hezbollah and Israel, throughout numerous articles in which she criticized the blackmail and pressures that the Shiite intellectuals went through from Hezbollah.

Fayad strongly condemned the assassination of her colleague, Lukman Slim, in 2021, suggesting Hezbollah was behind the assassination.[6]

Publications

Source:[7]

  • The Body in the Trap, Dar Al Rais, Beirut, 2000.
  • The Child Schoole’s Education in The Family and Cultural Space, Arab cultural center, Beirut-Rabat, 2004.
  • Arab Culturel’s Masques, Dar athakafa, Cairo, 2006.
  • To be Lebanese, Dar alarabyah lilouloum, Beirut, 2008.
  • How to Deal With Violence That Exists Among Us, Dar Al Nahda, Beirut,  2012.

References

  1. ^ "Mona Fayad, professeure et écrivaine. "Le 14 mars permet au Hezbollah de prendre le Liban en otage"". Magazine Le Mensuel. 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. ^ "Experts: Lebanon blast brings foreign insistence on reform". UPI. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  3. ^ "Lebanese Women in All Their Diversity", Women in Lebanon, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, doi:10.1057/9781137281999.0020, ISBN 978-1-137-28199-9, retrieved 2021-02-12
  4. ^ "Shiites against Hezbollah". The Washington Institute. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  5. ^ "Mona Fayad : Nous ne nous laisserons pas intimider". L'Orient-Le Jour. 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  6. ^ "US envoy: Slim murder an unforgivable barbaric act". Arab News. 2021-02-11. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  7. ^ "The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers - Mona Fayad". www.bahithat.org. Retrieved 2021-02-20.