# Habib Malik

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**Habib Malik** is a retired associate professor of history and cultural studies at the [Lebanese American University](/source/Lebanese_American_University) (LAU). His father [Charles Malik](/source/Charles_Malik) was a leading figure in the drafting and adoption of the 1948 [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](/source/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights).

## Life and work

Habib Malik was born in 1954 in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington_D.C.), and received his school education both in the United States and in [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon). His father, [Charles Malik](/source/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](/source/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](/source/American_University_of_Beirut), then, after spending one year at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University), he joined [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) for his graduate studies, where he earned his [PhD](/source/PhD) in modern european intellectual history in 1985.

Habib taught intellectual/cultural as well as socio/political history at the [American University of Beirut](/source/American_University_of_Beirut)’s Off-Campus Program (OCP), and at the [Catholic University of America](/source/Catholic_University_of_America) in [Washington D.C.](/source/Washington_D.C.) He is currently an associate professor of history at the [Lebanese American University](/source/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](/source/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy) in 1995 and 1996, and a visiting scholar at the [American Enterprise Institute](/source/American_Enterprise_Institute) in 2003.

## Human Rights

Habib Malik is also a [human rights](/source/Human_rights) activist and a founding member of the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon). He is also the president and CEO of The Charles Malik Foundation (registered in the [United States](/source/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 [Christian](/source/Christians) communities, democracy in the [Arab world](/source/Arab_world), [Kierkegaard](/source/Kierkegaard)’s Arab reception, and also a chapter in *Finding God at Harvard*.

## References

- [Personal page at Lebanese American University-website](http://sas.lau.edu.lb/humanities/people/hmalik.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170909135546/http://sas.lau.edu.lb/humanities/people/hmalik.php) 2017-09-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

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