Nadine Abou Zaki

Previous Professions

  • Founder and President, 2017 – present, Red Oak Association.
  • Lecturer in Philosophy, 2013 - present, American University of Beirut.
  • Founder and Executive Chair, 2007 - present, The New Arab Woman Forum (NAWF).
  • Editor-in-Chief, 2003 -2017, Al Hasnaa Magazine.
  • Sculptor, 1999 - present.

Honorary Office & Memberships

Selected by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture as Sculpture Ambassador for Beirut, World Book Capital, 2009.

Represented Lebanon through sculpture at the 6th Francophone Games, 2009.

Represented Lebanon through sculpture at the 5th Francophone Games, 2005.

Field(s) of Expertise

Editing a Women's Journal
Philosophy
Sculpting
Writing

Exhibitions, Lectures & Performances

Exhibitions:

  • "Diaries of a Mulberry Tree," Dance Theatre, Beit Al Fann Hammana, 2019
  • "Diaries of a Mulberry Tree," Dance Theatre, Al Madina Theatre, Beirut, 2017
  • "Please Touch the Trash," Interactive Art Performance, Beirut International Platform of Dance, Al Madina Theatre, Beirut, 2016
  • "Please Touch," Interactive Art Performance, Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, 2015
  • "Please Touch," Interactive Sculpture Exhibition, Ayyam Gallery Art Show, "Station," Beirut, 2014
  • Five stone seats installed in front of the French Cultural Center (Title: Dialogue Garden), Damascus Street, Beirut, 2010
  • Memorial Sculpture installed in front of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Beirut, 2009
  • Participation in the Emaar International Art Symposium, Dubai, 2008
  • Solo Sculpture Exhibition titled "Et je m’envole" (And I Fly), 2008
  • Solo Sculpture Exhibition titled "L’un regarde, l’autre agit" (One Watches, the Other Acts), 2004
  • Participation in the Mushrif Art Symposium, Lebanon, 2003
  • Solo Sculpture Exhibition titled "Tours du silence" (Towers of Silence), 2002
  • Memorial Sculpture designed and executed specifically for the Ministry of Tourism, installed in front of the Ministry of Tourism and Information building, Hamra Street, Beirut, since 2002
  • Participation in the International Art Symposium, Aley, Lebanon, 1999-2001
Lectures & Conferences:

  • A talk about Nature, Freedom and Truth in Thoreau's Journal, St Jospeh University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016.
  • A talk about Creation and Tawhid, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2016.
  • A talk about Nazih Khater: The terrible Man in Town, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2015.
  • Speaker at the opening sessions of the annual New Arab Woman (NAWF) Forum, since 2008.
  • Speaker, "A Women's Uprising: Emancipation in the Arab World", discussion at the Korber Forum, moderated by TV presenter Minou Amir-Sehhi, Hamburg, Germany, 2013.
  • Speaker, "The new Arab woman forum: The transforming role of Arab women and its future impact on society", paper presented at the German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG), Berlin, Germany, 2013.
  • Speaker, “Socrates and Women”, paper presented during the “Philosophical Symposium on Socrates-True Wisdom”, Hellenic Cultural Center, Lebanon, 2013.
  • Speaker, discussion session over the book De femme à homme (From woman to man), moderated by François Zabbal at the Arab World Institute, Paris, 2012.
  • Speaker, opening speech at Qatar International Business Women Forum, Qatar, 2009.
  • Speaker, “Voices of Karama: a panel discussion with women’s activists from the Middle-East”, New Orleans, USA, 2008.
  • Speaker, “Transmission des cultures et du dialogue interculturel à travers le rôle de la femme” [The role of women in the transmission of cultures and intercultural dialogue], UNESCO, Paris, 2008.
  • Speaker, “Love in Digital Islam”, hosted by the feminist writer Fatme Mernissi at the Cultural Center of Asturias, Spain, 2008.
  • Speaker, “V-Day to the Tenth” - New Orleans, 2008.
  • Speaker, “V-Day Festival- Women in Conflict Zones”, New York, 2006.
  • Speaker, "New Media for a New Arab Woman", paper presented during the conference entitled “Women, Dissidence and Creativity” organized by Nawal El-Saadawi, Cairo, 2005.

Awards

  • Order of the French Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques,) Ministry of the French National Education, 2016.
  • International Award for Secularism from the Republican Committee on Secularism (France), 2009.
  • The first international poetry prize on the occasion of the United Cities of the World at Issy-les- Moulineaux (France), 1999.