'''Habib Malik''' is a retired associate professor of history and cultural studies at the [[Lebanese American University]] (LAU). His father [[Charles Malik]] was a leading figure in the drafting and adoption of the 1948 [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].
==Life and work== Habib Malik was born in 1954 in [[Washington D.C.|Washington, D.C.]], and received his school education both in the United States and in [[Lebanon]]. His father, [[Charles Malik]], was the first ambassador of Lebanon to the United States and is well known to have contributed to and shaping the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]](10 December 1948), among other diplomatic services in his career. Habib's mother was Eva Habib Badr.
Habib earned his bachelor's degree in history from the [[American University of Beirut]], then, after spending one year at [[Princeton University]], he joined [[Harvard University]] for his graduate studies, where he earned his [[PhD]] in modern european intellectual history in 1985.
Habib taught intellectual/cultural as well as socio/political history at the [[American University of Beirut]]’s Off-Campus Program (OCP), and at the [[Catholic University of America]] in [[Washington D.C.]] He is currently an associate professor of history at the [[Lebanese American University]] (Byblos campus) and is chairing its newly emerging department of history.
He was a visiting fellow at the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] in 1995 and 1996, and a visiting scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] in 2003.
==Human Rights== Habib Malik is also a [[human rights]] activist and a founding member of the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in [[Lebanon]]. He is also the president and CEO of The Charles Malik Foundation (registered in the [[United States]]) that is in charge of editing and publishing Charles Malik's intellectual, diplomatic, and personal papers and legacy, and that guards his unpublished 50,000-page diary.
==Major publications== *''Between Damascus and Jerusalem: Lebanon and Middle East Peace'' (2000, 2nd edition) *''Receiving Søren Kierkegaard: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought'' (1997) *''The Challenge of Human Rights: Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration'' (ed.) (2001) *''The Systems of Whitehead's Metaphysics''(co-ed. with Tony E. Nasrallah)(2016) *''On the Philosophical Thought of Charles Malik''(co-ed. with Tony E. Nasrallah)(2018)
He has also published many articles, essays, and chapters in books on a variety of topics that include human rights, political Islam, Middle Eastern [[Christians|Christian]] communities, democracy in the [[Arab world]], [[Kierkegaard]]’s Arab reception, and also a chapter in ''Finding God at Harvard''.
== References == *[http://sas.lau.edu.lb/humanities/people/hmalik.php Personal page at Lebanese American University-website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909135546/http://sas.lau.edu.lb/humanities/people/hmalik.php |date=2017-09-09 }} {{Reflist}}
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