Dr Carine Juvin

Dr. Souraya Noujaim

Souraya Noujaim began her career at Musée du Louvre and has since worked for major cultural institutions. As part of the “Grand Louvre” project, she took part in the opening of the first Islamic Art Department rooms of Musée du Louvre and in landmark exhibitions at Musée du Louvre and Grand Palais. She later worked for the British Museum to participate in the study of the collection of weights and measures in the Arabic section of the Department of Coins and Medals. She has taught at the École du Louvre for several years where in 2013 she held the Islamic Art History chair. Dr. Noujaim has organised numerous educational and cultural outreach programmes at Musée du Louvre and Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). She is notably the author of the Catalogue raisonné de la collection d’estampilles, poids forts et autres disques en verre du Musée du Louvre (RMN) and she regularly speaks in colloquia and symposia.

Nasser Rabbat

Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. His interests include Islamic art and architecture, urban history, heritage studies, Arab history, contemporary Islamic art, and post-colonial criticism. He teaches lecture courses on various aspects of Islamic architecture and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic Urbanism; Historiography of Islamic Architecture; Late Antiquity and the foundation of Islamic architecture; Reading Ibn Khaldun; (Re)constructing Memory; Urbicide; and Balancing Globalism and Regionalism in the Arabian Gulf. Professor Rabbat has published more than a hundred scholarly articles and several books on topics ranging from Mamluk architecture to Antique Syria, 19th century Cairo, Orientalism, and urbicide. His most recent books are Taqiy al-Din al-Maqrizi: Wijdan al-Tarikh al-Masri (2024); Nasser Rabbat: Critical Encounters (2023); Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (2023); ‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita (The Architecture of the Dead Cities) (2018), and an online book, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS, co-edited with Pamela Karimi (2016). His co-edited book, Construction as Destruction: The Case of Syria will be published in 2025 by AUC Press. He is currently editing a book on the cultural history of Syria to be published by Edinburgh University Press. His next book project is a history of Mamluk Cairo, which is under contract with AUC Press.

Guilhem André

Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak

Manuel Rabaté

Hervé Barbaret

Sandra Lagumina

Laurence des Cars

Noel Adams

Administrator and Associate Curator at Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz

Mariam AlDhaheri

Curatorial Assistant at Louvre Abu Dhabi

Fakhera Alkindi

Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Louvre Abu Dhabi

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Aida El Khiari

Shireen Ellinger

Curator at The Khalili Collections, London

Finbarr Barry Flood

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU)

Michael David Antony Franses

Adeline Laclau

Joachim Meyer

Director of The David Collection, Copenhagen

Bashir Mohamed

Curator at Furusiyya Art Foundation, Vaduz

Mina Moraitou

Curator at Benaki Museum, Athens

Alison Ohta

Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, London

Maria Sardi

Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts

Élodie Vigouroux

Junior Professor of Artistic and Material Cultures of Medieval Islams, Université Lumière Lyon 2