Dr Renee Hattar

Dr Renee Hattar is a visiting scholar at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, in Milan/Italy. 2021-2026 Director of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman/Jordan. Holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Granada-Spain; she is specialised in Music and Peace with focus on Arab Christian Studies, Interfaith, and Peacebuilding.

She has participated in many conferences, workshops, trainings and studies on different topics, such as Arab Christian studies, peacebuilding, music and peace, PVE, dialogue and inter-faith. Dr Hattar has a number of publications as well as training manuals on these topics. She is also an active member in several local and international committees and study groups.

 Between 2006 and 2016 she has worked Coordinator of the Middle East Department at the International Centre for the Study of Christian Orient in Granada- Spain and professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the Institute of Theology “Lumen Gentium”, affiliated to the Faculty of Theology at the San Damaso Ecclesiastical University/Spain, 2008 to 2016. She served as consultant of interfaith relations (Christianity-Islam) for the Spanish Episcopal Conference, 2012 to 2016. In 2016, Dr Hattar joined the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies as Head of International Studies, Programs and Projects and is August 2021 she was appointed RIIFS Director. After a long journey at RIIFS she decided to go back to Academia and joined the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart as a visiting scholar.