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Chadi Kahwaji

Chadi Kahwaji is a lecturer-researcher in Arabic language and literature at the Institute of Oriental Letters (ILO) of Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) since 2023.

Holder of a doctorate in Arabic language and literature from USJ, he defended his thesis under the supervision of Antoine Sayyah on « The crisis of Lebanese identity between linear time and eternal return: a study of narrative discourse based on the works Yūsuf al-Inglīzī and Sharīd al-Manāzil ». His research focuses on discourse analysis, literary semiotics, and questions of identity in contemporary Arabic literature. He has notably published on linguistic plurality in the Lebanese novel (Rashid al-Daïf, Farjallah Hayek), on the narrative representation of the history of Eastern Christians, and on teaching Arabic to heritage speakers.

He also teaches at the American University of Beirut (CAMES programme, 2023) and serves as proofreader and scientific editor at the Centre for Documentation and Research on Arab Christianity (CEDRAC) of USJ since 2014, as well as for the journals Annales de l’Institut de Lettres Orientales and Āfāq wa-Siyāqāt. He contributes to the development of Arabic textbooks for international university teaching, in collaboration with Georgetown University Qatar and Habib Publishing.

Winner of the Sharjah Prize for Young Lebanese Poets and recipient of a certificate of merit from the University of Balamand for his contributions to the Arabic Poetry Festival, he is also a member of the editorial board of Āfāq wa-Siyāqāt, published by the Faculty of Religious Sciences of USJ.

At the Pluriel Congress in Cordoba in February 2026, he delivered a paper entitled : « Discourse semiotics in the badīʿiyya school: manifestations of ethics in artistic aesthetics ».

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