Prof. Fahima CHARAFFEDINE
	Member of the Global Scientific Committee

Country: Lebanon Current position: Professor of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon and Secretary General to the Non-Governmental National Committee for the Follow-up of women's issues – Lebanon. Academic discipline: Ph.D. in Political Philosophy, University of Paris X, France Published in areas of: Culture and ideology in the Arab world; knowledge and power; Arabic thought and philosophy; Arabic thought and contemporary challenges; the protection of Arab cultural specificity; theory of Arabic Nationalism; Arab socialism: limits and capacities; participation of women in political life; cultural dimension of discrimination against women in Lebanon; women status in decision making; family functions in a changing society; The woman, between the subject and the object; socio-cultural dimension of the human rights notion in the Arab world; role and visions of NGOs in the Arab world. Secretary General, the Arabic Association of Sociology; member, executive committee of Lebanese writers’ Union; Vice president of the Lebanese committee of Social Sciences. General Secretary of the National Committee for the Follow up of Women's Issue, Lebanon; Former member, Council of the United Nations Institute for the Social Development Research (UNRISD).