Prof. Dr. Nayla Tabbara is the Executive President and co-founder of Adyan, Foundation for Diversity, Solidarity and Human Dignity (www.adyanfoundation.org ) founded in 2006. 

She is also the co-founder of Adyan Europe, founded in 2022. 

She is a co-president of Religions for Peace, and member of the Executive Committee of its World Council, an advisory board member of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies (Amman- Jordan), and part of the council of experts of the International Religious Freedom and Belief Alliance/Article 18. She is also part of the Ethical committee of the Grand Mosque of Paris, and part of the scientific committee « Women, Rights and Society » at the Royal Acdemy of Morocco. 

She holds a PhD in Science of Religions from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne-Paris) and Saint Joseph University (Beirut) and is a University Professor in Religious and Islamic Studies at Saint Joseph University, Beirut and in Interreligious Dialogue at the Lebanese American University (LAU). 

She is also a Muslim woman theologian and has publications in the fields of Islamic theology of religious diversity, theology of fragility, Islamic Feminism, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic Social Responsibility and Sufism. 

She works on curricula development (formal and non-formal) on multifaith education, inclusive citizenship and Freedom of Religion or Belief and has publications on Education on interreligious and intercultural diversity. 

She has received in 2019 the Gold Medal of the French Renaissance Award for all her work and the Special Jury award of the Fr. Jacques Hamel Prize, the Ecritures et Spiritualités Award and the Academie des Sciences d’Outre mer award for her book L’islam pensé par une femme (Bayard, 2018). She received in 2022 the Ibn Rushd Award for Freedom of Thought and in 2024 the second prize of the Women of Excellence in Multi-Religious Action award by Religions for Peace.