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Brigitte Caland

With a master in Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies and a PhD in Literature and Civilizations, Caland has taught at the Arabic and Near Eastern languages department at the American University of Beirut as well as the University Saint Joseph, Beirut. She is a trained chef interested in food history, who published her first book, Promenades culinaires (Les trois colonnes, 2020) on the evolution of culinary traditions in the Near-East; another book Nourritures affectives (Twig, 2025) will be published before the end of 2025. Since 2005 she has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland and co-curated several exhibitions of her work.

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