Elissar Naddaf Geagea

Previous Professions

UNESCO

  • Coordinator of the project to inscribe Télé Liban’s archives on the Memory of the World Register, 2024
  • Coordinator and Head of the project to establish an inventory of Télé Liban’s archives, 2024
  • Coordinator of the project to develop a new Information Law with technical support from UNESCO’s Regional Office for the Middle East, 2023

OIF

  • Initiator and Head of the project to relaunch the French-language TV news on Télé Liban in collaboration with the OIF, 2024
  • Initiation and organization of the roundtable “Media and Francophonie: Multilingualism, Challenges and Opportunities” at ESA, in collaboration with the OIF in the Middle East, 2023
  • Francophonie Economic and Trade Mission (Contribution), 2023

UNICEF / UNDP

  • Initiation and coordination of the project to create a website for the public French-language radio station Radio Liban 96.2 FM, with UNICEF support, 2023
  • Coordinator of the project to renovate the equipment of the National News Agency, in collaboration with UNICEF, 2022
  • Coordinator of the project to rehabilitate Radio Liban, the National News Agency, and the Ministry of Information following August 4, with UNICEF support, 2022
  • Coordinator of the project to launch the website “Factcheck Lebanon” and the Forum on combating disinformation, in collaboration with UNDP, 2020
  • Initiation and coordination of the solarization project of the Naas transmission site belonging to Télé Liban, 2025
  • Enrichment of Télé Liban’s programming grid with a Lebanese series on early marriage, 2025
  • Enrichment of Télé Liban’s programming grid with a new animated series (Jad and Tala), 2025

INA / French Embassy in Lebanon

  • Head of the project “Preservation, Digitization and Promotion of the Audiovisual Heritage of Lebanese Public Media”, in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute in France (INA) and the French Embassy in Lebanon, 2021–2023

 FMM / French Embassy in Lebanon

  • Coordinator of the partnership between the Ministry of Information and France Médias Monde, supported by the French Embassy in Lebanon, including the implementation of the agreement between Radio France Internationale and Radio Liban 96.2
  • Organization of a series of meetings in Paris with the President of ARCOM, the Arab World Institute, UNESCO Paris, INA, and France Médias Monde to strengthen Francophone public media, 2023
  • Initiator and Head of the Télé Liban rebranding project, in collaboration with France Médias Monde and France 24 (ongoing)

Ministry of Information (2011–2024)

  • Advisor to the Minister

National News Agency

  • Editor and translator of French-language dispatches (Foreign Languages Department – Francophone Service), 2008–2016

Christian Media Exhibition (UCIP Lebanon)

  • Exhibition Coordinator, 2003–2005

Bacharia Magazine

  • Editor-in-Chief of the French supplement of the economic and cultural magazine, 1991–1993

Radio Liban Libre

  • Editorial Office (training internship), 1991

La Revue du Liban et du Monde Arabe

  • Editor, 1988–1990

Education

PhD in French Literature, 2024
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)
Dissertation topic: « Le Rôle Ambivalent de l’Ethos dans le Discours Politique de la Réconciliation Interchrétienne »

Master’s Degree and DEA in French Language and Literature, 2006
Lebanese University
Socio-political study of the novel « Allah n’est pas obligé » by the Francophone African author Ahmadou Kourouma

Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and News Agencies, 1992
Lebanese University

Bachelor’s Degree in French Language and Literature, 1992
Lebanese University

French Baccalaureate (Second Part, Series A2), 1989
Collège des Sœurs des Saints-Cœurs – Zahlé

Degrees: Diploma, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral Degrees

Exhibitions, Lectures & Performances

SEMINARS AND PUBLICATIONS

  • Memory in Heritage – UNESCO & National Archives of Qatar, Qatar (Panelist), 2025
  • Radio & TV Archives Digitisation Strategies – FIAT/IFTA & ASBU (Panelist), 2024
  • The International Immigration Conference for the Development of Tripoli and the North – YES WE CAN 2 – Beirut Arab University, the Association of Lebanese Businessmen in France, & CCIT (Panelist), 2024
  • Media in Times of Crisis – Project Watan (Panelist), 2024
  • Conference of the Lebanese Library Association (LLA) – ESCWA (Panelist), 2024
  • The International Immigration Conference for the Development of Tripoli and the North – YES WE CAN 1 – Beirut Arab University, the Association of Lebanese Businessmen in France, & the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Tripoli (Panelist), 2023
  • Media and Innovation – Maharat (Speaker), 2023
  • Unlocking Science: Researchers of Tomorrow – AUF & CNRS (Presentation), 2022
  • Implicit Meaning and Its Ramifications, International Conference organized by the University of Médenine, Tunis, 2020

Publications

  • Lebanon and the Francophonie Are Inseparable, article published in Le Mensuel magazine, 2019
  • Pathos in Personification, published in the scientific journal Awraq Thaqafiya, 2024