Education:

• PhD (History) American University of Beirut, 1995
• Title of PhD Dissertation: Historiography in Bilad al-Sham 16^th and 17^th centuries
• MA (History) American University of Beirut, 1982. Title of Thesis: “Druze Lebanon under the last Mamluks the account of Hamzah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Sibat entitled Sidq al-akhbar”, edited and translated.
• BBA (Business Department) American University of Beirut, 1964.

Work Experience:

• Instructor in the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut (1982-1995).
• Lecturer in the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut (1995- );
• Lecturer in the Department of History, Haigazian University (2006 – 2012 )

Academic Connections:

• Member of Bahithat (Association of Lebanese Women Researchers).
• Former member of MESA (Middle East Studies in North America).
• Member of the organizing committee of the International Symposium organized by the joint collaboration of: l’Université Saint-Joseph et L’Université de Balamand, l’Institut français du Proche-Orient: 1860: Histoires et memoires d’un conflit, Beirut, October 5-7, 2011. Proceeding published in 2015: Histoire et memoires d’un conflit 1860.

Publications:

* تاريخ الدروز في آخر عهد المماليك. تحقيق وتقديم نائلة تقي الدين قائدبيه. بيروت: دار العودة، 1989

* مختصر تاريخ الأساقفة . بيروت في القرنين الثامن  عشر والتاسع عشر. تحقيق وتقديم نائلة قائدبيه. منشورات جامعة البلمند. بيروت: دار النهار، ‏2002‏‏‏

* الإمارة الشهابية والإقطاعيون الدروز: سيرة الأسرة النكدية لكاتبها نسيب سعيد نكد. تحقيق وتقديم نائلة تقي الدين قائدبيه. بيروت: دار النهار، 2004.

* الحقائق الوفية في تاريخ بطاركة الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية كاتبها ميخائيل بريك. تحقيق نائلة تقي الدين قائدبيه، تقديم حياة العيد بوعلوان. منشورات جامعة البلمند. بيروت: دار النهار، 2006.

Under Publication:

* تاريخ الشام لكاتبه ميخائيل بريك. تحقيق نائلة تقي الدين قائدبيه. بالتعاون مع جامعة البلمند .

Articles:

• “Excerpts from Druze History”. Heritage , 2000
• “Abd Allah Ibn Mikha’il Trad al-Bayruti: A Historian in the Eighteenth Century Bilad al-Sham”. Parole de l’Orient 27(2002): 161-182.
• “Al-Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Tanukhi as a Druze Reformer”. In The Druze. Realities and Perceptions, pp. 43-59. Edited by Kamal Salibi. London: Druze Heritage Foundation, 2005.
• “Melkites in the Writings of Muslim Historian of Bilad al-Sham”. Parole de l’Orient (34(2009), pp. 413-432.
• “Abdullah Ibn Mikha’il al-Bayruti – A Chronicler’s Contribution to Orthodox Historiography”. In: Le role des Historiens Orthodoxes Dans l’Historiographie. Balamand, Lebanon: Universite de Balamand, 2010.
• "عفيفة صعب، تجارب وأبعاد". في: حفريات وتحريات: حيوات نساء عربيات. ص 312-336.  منشورات باحثات، الكتاب الحادي عشر: 2005-2006. بيروت: المركز الثقافي العربي، 2006. 

Conferences attended and participated in:

• American Druze Association. Orlando Florida, July 1998. Title of Paper: “Excerpts from Druze History”
• Symposium Syro-Arabicum. Sayyidat al-Bir, Lebanon, September 1998. Title of Paper: Abd Allah Ibn Mikha’il Trad al-Bayruti: A Historian in the Eighteenth Century Bilad al-Sham
• MESA (Middle East Studies Association of North America). San Francisco, November 2001. Title of paper: “Shihab –Druze Discord in 19^th Century Lebanon”
• MESA (Middle East Studies Association of North America). Washington, November 2002. Title of paper: “Beirut in the 18^th –19^th centuries According to a Christian Orthodox Historian Ibn Trad al-Bayruti”.
• Druze Heritage Association. Oxford, June 2002. Title of Paper: “Al-Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Tanukhi As a Druze Reformer”
• Oxford, October 2004
• Conference at Balamand University, Lebanon.  May 2005. “Towards a cultural History of Bilad al-Sham in the Mamluk Era. Prosperity or Decline, Tolerance or Persecution?” Joint Paper Naila Kaidbey and Dr. Hayat Bualuan: Title of Paper “The Christians under Mamluk rule in the Qalqashandi’s Subh al-a’sha”.    
• Conference at Balamand University, Lebanon. Contributions of Orthodox Historians to Arab Historiography. March 12-14, 2006.  Title of paper: Abdullah Ibn Mikha`il Trad al-Bayruti. A Chronicler’s Contribution to Orthodox Historiography.
• Conference at USJ organized by USJ and CEDRAC: La production littéraire des Melkites avant l’ère ottomane (750-1516 AD). 25 - 26 Januray 2008.  Title of paper: “Melkites in the Writings of Muslim Historians of Bilad al-Sham in the early Ottoman Period”.
• Conference at LAU and Tokyo University, “Collective Memory” Title of Paper: Collective Memory and Civil Conflict in 1860: Husain Abu Shakra a Druze Eyewitness.
• Xth Symposium Syriacum; VIIIe Confernece on Arab Christian Studies, Granada, Spain, September, 22-27th, 2008. Beyond the Frontiers. Title of Paper: Civil War of 1860 in Lebanon: A Local Christian Narrative.
• Colloque organisé par l’Université de Balamand, l’Université Saint-Joseph, l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient et l’Orient-Institut Beirut. ‘Cohabitation et gestion des conflits dans le Bilad al-Sham à l’époque ottomane : musulmans et chrétiens perçues à travers des chroniqueurs et voyageurs’. (28 - 29 - 30 Mai 2009). Title of Paper: Christians in Nineteenth Century Mount Lebanon: Facts and Perceptions.
• American University of Beirut, April 2010. Asad Rustum. Title of Paper: idha da’at al usul da’ al-tarikh: Asad Rustum Muhaqiq (Asad Rustum as Editor of Original Sources). Proceeds of conference published under the auspices of AUB, Jan. 2015 under the title: Asad Rustum: mu’asis `ilm al-tarikh fi al-`alam al-`arabi.
• Universite Saint Joseph, Faculte Des Sciences Religieuses and CEDRAC, December 5-6, 2010. Colloque international: La production littéraire arabe des Maronites du XVIe au XVIIIe s. Title of Paper: Ghanem Abu Samra and Youssef Shantiri: 19th Century Heroes or Villains. Proceeds of conference under publication by CEDRAC.

• l’Université Saint-Joseph, L’Université de Balamand, et l’Institut français du Proche-Orient: 1860: Histoires et memoires d’un conflit, Beirut, October 5-7, 2011. Title of Paper: 1860: Druze Participants in the Mayhem of 1860. Proceeds of conference published under the same title by IFPO (Institute Francaise du Proche Orient), Beirut: Dec. 2015.
• USEK (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik) and USJ (Saint Joseph University) Feb. 2015. 3eme Symposium Syro-Arabicum. Title of paper: Shibli Shmayyil: Politics of Change. Proceeds under publication.
• ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies Forty Fifth International Conference: Melkite Christianity 1st – 19th Centuries (The Patriarchates of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem). July 2017. Title of paper: “Melkites in Damascus: The Account of Mikhail Breik.”