Higher Islamic Shiite Council appoints Dina Mawla president of Islamic University

The vice president of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council, Sheikh Abdel Amir Kablan, chair of the board of trustees of the Islamic University in Lebanon, appointed Dr. Dina Mawla president of the university as successor to Dr. Hassan Shalabi. Mawla, to be noted, holds a PHD in law from Montpelier University since 2004 and has occupied a number of academic and research positions, including the following: the director of the French branch of the Lebanese University School of Law from 2011 to 2015; a member of the Joint Committee, professor of master of strategic studies at the Lebanese Army Center for Studies and Research, professor at the Military School; foreign relations officer at the LU School of Law and Political Sciences; chair of the Center for Research and Academic Cooperation; a member in the Parliamentary committee deliberating a draft ‘mediation legislation’; a member in the Higher University Committee for Programs and Curricula; a member in the Special Law Committee and member in the Research Committee. Mawla has also paneled numerous doctorate and master defense thesis and has participated in a large number of conferences in addition to having many publications in specialized international journals. (An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, September 8, 2016)