MARIE C. NUAR

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2010-present St. Peter’s Basilica Scavi Office, Vatican City, Vatican
Scavi Tour Guide, explaining the place, theology and significance of St. Peter’s bones

2002-2008 Holy Rosary Academy, Anchorage, AK
HS teacher, during which time I started and taught a comparative religion class

EDUCATION
2012- 2016 Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Rome, Italy
Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue, January 2016, Magna Cum Laude
Dissertation: ”I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve me.” The Anthropology of al-Dhāriyāt (51):56 with a Comparative Reflection in the Light of Christian Anthropology

2014-2015 Pontifical Gregorian University, Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, Rome, Italy
MA, Jewish Studies, June 2015, Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: “Is it better for man to not have been created than to have been created.” A Study of BT Eruvin 13b.

2013-2014 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Visiting graduate student with classes in Hebrew and Judaic Studies

2011-2012 Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
STL, Missiology, June 2012, Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: The Christian Teaching of Original Sin: Its Development and its similarity to Islamic Doctrines.

2009-2012 Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome, Italy
License in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: The Nature of Man According to Rāghib Iṣfahānī in the Kitāb tafṣīl al-nashaʾtīn taḥṣīl al-saʿādatīn

2008-2009 Dar Comboni for Arabic Studies, Cairo, Egypt
Certification, Arabic Language, Islamic Studies, and Interreligious Dialogue

2003-2004 Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, USA
MA, Theology and Christian Ministry

1998-2002 Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, USA
BA Classical Liberal Arts

PRESENTATIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015  The Arabic Translations of the Bible, Cairo, Egypt

2015 BRAIS Conference 2015 London, UK
Presentation: An Islamic Scriptural Anthropology

2013-2014 Hebrew University, Jerusalem together with Gregorian University, Rome
Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Fellowship for Visiting Graduate Students

2012 Assisi 2012: Ecclesiological Investigations Network Symposium
Presentation: Answering the Difficult Questions

2011 Middlebury Language Schools – Arabic, Mills Campus, CA
Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages

 

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 Youth Retreats, Ethiopia
Aided in the organization and running of four week-long residential retreats

2002-2008 Archdiocese of Anchorage, AK
Worked with a team planning and organizing Diocesan wide youth events

2004 Holy Rosary Academy, Anchorage, AK
Chaired the annual auction

EXPERIENCES
Attended various conferences and talks over the past 7 years on Inter-Religious Dialogue focusing on Islamic-Catholic relations as well as amongst the three Abrahamic Faiths. Lived in both Cairo, Egypt and Jerusalem, Israel living an interfaith experience in my day to day living.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparison and relationship between Catholics, Muslims and Jews in theology, with a particular emphasis on theological anthropology and derivative considerations.

LANGUAGE RESOURCES
English – Native
Italian, Arabic – Proficient (reading, writing, speaking)
French, Hebrew – Working knowledge (reading, writing, speaking)

MEMBERSHIP
American Academy of Religion

Catholic Theological Society of America