Nadia Khouri, M.A, Ph.D.

Nadia Khouri, M. A., Ph. D.

Humanities Department – Dawson College

B. A.: Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. Undergraduate studies in classical Greek and Roman history, French Literature, English literature, World Civilization, Philosophy.

M. A. and Ph. D.: McGill University. My Ph. D. dissertation, The Other Side of Otherness, examined the impact of the Enlightenment on the conflicting interpretations of the ideal society in the political writings and fiction of the United States.

BOOKS

Le Biologique et le social 
Discours et mythes de l?ethnicité
Qui a peur de Mordecai Richler?  
American Dream with co-authors Jean-François Côté and Dominique Michel.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS/OPINION

From 1995 to 2000 I wrote columns for Cité libre, a political magazine co-founded in the 1950s by the late Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. My articles were focused on Canadian bilingualism and multiculturalism, the creation of Nunavut, and the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on national identity.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

My courses and present research are centred on the big questions in philosophy, ethical theory, Eudaimonia and the Doctrine of the Mean in Aristotle?s ethics, the philosophical traditions of the good life, and the relation between ethics and the law.

OTHER INTERESTS

The comic novel. The political satire. Philosophy through film. Shakespeare. Opera.

FAN OF

British mystery series: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Poirot with David Suchet, Miss Marple with Joan Hickson, A Touch of Frost, Foyle?s War, Inspector Morse, Kavanagh, Q.C., George Gently, Midsomer Murders. New Tricks, Rebus, Taggart.