Abdallah El Ayach is a researcher of Modern Philosophy and Critical Theory. He holds a Master’s degree from the department of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut. His Master’s thesis, entitled Structures of Trust, is about contemporary political normative relations in Beirut. He has also worked at developing Naqḍ, a database for Arab critical thought. His current research is on Arabic translations of German Idealism viewed within the wider context of the problematic of the “impossible Arab modern philosopher”. Within the scope of translation, Abdallah has also written an article on the problem of “Translating the Subject into Arabic”.