She holds a doctorate in religious studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) and Saint Joseph University (Beirut, Lebanon) and is a university professor of comparative religions and Islamic studies. She has published in the fields of Islamic theology and other religions, education on interreligious and intercultural diversity and Qur’anic exegesis and Sufism. In addition, she works on curricula development (formal and non-formal) for multifaith education and intercultural citizenship. Her publications include Divine Hospitality: Christian and Muslim Theologies of the Other (2011, co-author with Fadi Daou; in Arabic and French, 2012); What About the Other? A Question for Intercultural Education in the 21st Century (editor, 2012) and the UNESCO publication, Christianity & Islam in the Context of Contemporary Culture (2009, co-editor with Dimitri Spivak).

Dr. Tabbara has also participated in numerous research projects and organizations including the following: Research coordinator, L’Arche and Islam (Adyan & L’Arche Internationale); Member, International Federation of Catholic Universities research group on religions and cultures, focusing on the topic, “Conflicts Related to Religious and Cultural Diversity”; and Researcher, UNESCO Lebanese-Russian project on youth and intercultural and interreligious dialogue. Dr. Tabbara also gives frequent interviews for numerous international media outlets, both print and television. Some of her most recent include a September 2015 interview together with Fadi Daou for Greece’s Pemptousia and an interview for an October 2015 article by Catholic News Agency following her participation as a speaker at the Vatican’s conference on the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate.