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Roula Rached is a polyglot journalist, cultural writer, translator and media expert with extensive expertise in the Middle East. She has written lengthily since 1999, in local Lebanese media and international press agencies on local and international cultural subjects, in Arabic for Reuters, Al Arabi and Al Modon among others and in French for L’Orient-Le-Jour and Le Commerce du Levant and has made major contributions to literature critique featuring books published in Arabic, French, English and Spanish. Roula Rached has worked at Agence France-Presse, Lebanon Office and was part of the launching team of a non-political service with subscribers from the Arab region. For over a decade she was cultural journalist and literary critic at the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar managing a weekly page on literature and writing for “Al Molhak” cultural supplement. She was Media expert at the European Union Delegation to Lebanon, collaborating directly with the Head of EU Delegation/ambassador and leading on press, media and communication. She was regional publicist at Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, and managed the Arab Film Competition communication as well as filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s movie &quot;Where Do We Go Now?

She has translated poetry, narrative and essay from/into Arabic, French, English and Spanish, including the updated introduction of Fred Halliday’s “Arabia Without Sultans”. She has interviewed major authors, including French Academy member Alain Decaux, Philosopher Dominique Lecourt, Philosopher Michel Onfray, Iris director Pascal Boniface, Communication Expert Dominique Wolton, Spanish poet and politician Luis Alberto de Cuenca, American novelist Chris Bohjalian, Mexican author and publisher Alberto Ruy Sánchez, among others. Roula currently serves as Media and Comms Officer at UN Women, Lebanon. She advices and manages Beirut Office institutional and programmatic communications and media/press relations, including on public events, advocacy campaigns, and online and offline media outreach. Roula was featured, as a literary critic in special episodes on the pan Arab Al Arabia TV (December 2006) and MTV Lebanon (October 2014) and as media expert on Tele Liban, Mariyam TV, MTV, Radio Liban, Voix du Liban and other media outlets. Roula hold a DES (Master’s degree in journalism) from Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II – France, Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des journalistes (CFPJ) – France and Lebanese University- Lebanon, in addition to a BA in journalism (Lebanese University), as well as a diploma of advanced Spanish from “Instituto Cervantes” in Beirut. She speaks and writes in Arabic, French, English and Spanish.