Born in 1963, fifi abou dib is a seasoned journalist and columnist at lebanese daily l’orient-le jour since 1986. she is also the weekend director of the web newspaper arab news en français and co-editor-in-chief of pulse, the e-magazine of the fashion trust arabia foundation dedicated to young designers in the arab world. she was for ten years, until 2019, editor in chief of l’officiel levant.
- 1989-1992: parliamentary assistant at the national assembly in paris.
- 1993 to date: journalist, author and translator. since 2000, she signs the weekly column “impression” in the french speaking lebanese daily l’orient le jour, and sheds the light on fashion and lifestyle news and young designers.
- 2009 to 2019: editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine l’officiel-levant.
- 2019-2020: associate editor-in-chief of cedar wings, middle east airlines’ bi-monthly in-flight magazine.
- 2015 to date: book reviewer for the monthly l’orient littéraire. bibliography
- Translations from arabic to french: le pain (2010), dans les meules de beyrouth (2012), au petit bonheur (2004, l’orient le jour editions) -d’autres ont des cyclones (2008, l’orient le jour editions), crime d’innocence (dar an-nahar 2007, for amnesty international).
- Several exhibition catalogs, biographies, various studies and collective works.
