Gabriel Khairallah
Born in Lebanon, Gabriel Khairallah is a Jesuit, a trained Islamic scholar, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ, Lebanon), where he has been teaching since 2011. He also serves as Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris (France) since 2013 and at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence (France) since 2024.
His research focuses on the relationships between sacred texts, literature and religion, and explores in particular the work of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, crossed on the one hand with the Bible and on the other with that of the French novelist François Mauriac. A PhD graduate of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III, France), his dissertation analyses the crisis of the family and the autonomy of the individual in Mahfouz and Mauriac. He also holds a dual Master 2 from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Facultés Loyola Paris, dedicated to the figure of God in Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley, as well as a Master’s degree on forgiveness in Paul Ricœur.
At Sciences Po Paris, he teaches the relationship between politics and literature through Mahfouz’s work. His research also explores the connections between literature and feminism. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals, notably in Proche-Orient Chrétien (vol. 73, 2023), edited by USJ. In February 2026, he spoke at the 5th Pluriel Congress in Cordoba with a paper entitled Hospitality, power and interreligious dialogue in Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley. Since 2018, he has directed the Catholic Youth Circle (CJC), the social office of the Jesuits in Beirut.
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