Edmond Bou Dagher is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having joined USEK in 2019 as a part-time faculty member, he currently serves as an assistant professor.

His research covers a wide range of topics in information and communication sciences, including citizen communication in Lebanon, dealing with Palestinian refugees and displaced Syrians, the rebound on origins within the Lebanese diaspora through digital social networks, the Lebanese protests of October 17, 2019, secularism in Corsican and Lebanese society, identity and citizenship in times of crisis, etc. He has published scientific articles on topics such as Lebanese cyber-citizenship in times of crisis (Bou Dagher, 2023), citizen dynamics in Africa and the Middle East (Bou Dagher , Bouzid, & BADARA GUEYE, 2021) and radicalism in the Lebanese press (Bou Dagher & Aroufoune , 2019).

Edmond is currently working on a research project in French with two other researchers at USEK, titled: Education aux médias et à l’information dans un milieu scolaire francophone en crise: pour un changement citoyen libanais” (Media and Information Education in a French-speaking school environment in crisis: for a change in Lebanese citizenship). In 2020, he conducted a post-doctoral study with the University of Corsica, titled: « La laïcité à l’épreuve des sociétés corse et libanaise » (Secularism put to the test in Corsican and Lebanese society).

Edmond has participated in several scientific missions in information and communication sciences. Since 2018, he has been a research associate at the IMSIC Laboratory at the University of Toulon, France. He has also been a member of the Réseau Transméditerranéen de la Recherche en Communication (RTRC) in France since 2017.

Between 2017 and 2023. Edmond taught at the Antonine University in Baabdah. Since 2008, he has been a contributor to the Lebanese magazine Ad-Dabbour and writes for various electronic newspapers. Between 2011 and 2017, he worked as Communications Officer at the Press Office of the Maronite Patriarchate, Bkerke.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, Université de Toulon – France
• MA in Journalism and Communication, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) – Lebanon
• BA in Journalism and Communication, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) – Lebanon