Roni Bou Saba was born in 1983 in Lebanon. He holds Lebanese nationality and has been permanently residing in Greece since 2006. He studied Arabic Philology at the Lebanese University (2001–2005) and Theology at the University of Balamand of the Patriarchate of Antioch (2002–2006). He later completed his studies in Greek Philology at the University of Patras (2006–2011). In 2018, he was awarded a Master’s degree in Arabic Philology from the Lebanese University. Since 2019, he has been pursuing a PhD entitled “The Reception of Greek Letters in Twentieth-Century Arabic Literature through the Introduction to the Iliad by Sulayman al-Bustani (1856–1925).”
His professional activities focus on teaching, translation, and research. He taught Arabic as a second language at the Cultural Center of the Embassy of Egypt in Athens (2010–2020) and Arabic as a mother tongue at the International School of Athens (2012–2015). Since 2012, he has been teaching Arabic at the Foreign Language Center of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).
He has actively participated in conferences and academic workshops in Greece, delivering papers on Arabic literature, the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language, Greek–Arab cultural relations, and intercultural coexistence. In parallel, he collaborates as a translator and interpreter with institutions and organizations such as the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament, and the Attis Theatre. He has also published studies in collective volumes and has worked as a columnist and translator for the Arab newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, where he has published translations of poems by Greek poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
