Meet the Author
Lévon Nordiguian
Lévon Nordiguian is director of the photographic library within the Bibliothèque Orientale at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. He trained as an archaeologist, and taught his subject in this university’s history department from 1980 to 2003, co-directing – with Carla Eddé – the department’s journal Tempora. He was the founder and first director of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory and a founding member of AREFML, the association for the restoration of Lebanese medieval frescoes. He has written books on Lebanon’s architectural heritage and compiled several publications presenting photographs from the photo-library archives at Saint Joseph University.