Fadia Hoteit is a professor at the Lebanese University and a researcher focused on early childhood and children’s literature, with a PhD in psychology from Paris V. Fadia taught children’s literature courses and coordinated a research team on early childhood care, chairing the Research and Educational Studies Center at the Lebanese University’s Education Faculty. She is a member of the committee for Lebanon’s national framework for early childhood curricula (2023) and co-organizer of international conferences on children's literature, including What a Story (2010), Politics in Children's Literature (2012), and the Early Childhood Between Care and Education conference (2014). Her publications on children’s literature and stories include Children’s Literature in Lebanon: Studies (Dar al-Fikr al-Lubnani, Beirut, 2001) and Play in Early Childhood (Lebanese Association for Educational Sciences, Beirut, 2006).