Is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Assistant Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Program (CHAPS) at Rutgers University. Worked at the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) in Syria in a number of capacities from 1996-2012. She has extensive museum and archaeological fieldwork experience. Since 2012, Salam has been active in the field of cultural heritage preservation. She has published scholarly articles and chapter contributions on early urbanism and economic growth in Mesopotamia, as well as analyses of current struggles in cultural heritage.

Is a Near Eastern archaeologist who since 1990 worked on several archaeological excavations in Germany, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. She was active in museum educational service for children and adults. More recently, she was a scientific employee at the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin (SMBPK) in the Tell Halaf excavation project. Since May 2018 she is part of the SIMAT team in Berlin.

Holds a Master’s degree in Classical Archeology. He has conducted archaeological research and excavated at several classical archaeological sites in the Province of Aleppo.
Until 2014, Ammar had been the curator of the Department of Classical Archeology in the Aleppo National Museum, and later in 2015, he joined the team of the Idleb Antiquities Center.
Ammar has supervised the preparation of several technical reports on emergency intervention and assessment of the current condition of several archaeological sites affected by the war in Syria. Additionally, he has been working in partnership with Syrian experts and in cooperation with the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project (SHOSI) in implementing preservation projects, at the Idlib Museum and a number of archaeological sites in the Idlib region.

Is the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are the history and historiography of Islamic architecture, medieval urbanism, modern Arab history, contemporary Arab art, and post-colonial criticism.  He has published several books, most recently a volume on the Dead Cities in Syria (2018) and is working on a book of the Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi. He regularly contributes to al-Hayat newspaper.

Is a Lector in Art and an Artist in Residence at Christ’s College of the University of Cambridge. He was a Bye-Fellow from 2007-2011. He comes from a background of fine art, architecture and theatre design. He was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and at Wimbledon School of Art (London).  He collaborates with different kinds of creative science and humanities disciples. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by museums around the world. Since the start of the Syrian Uprising, his work has related to the Syrian Crisis and reflects on the destruction of his cultural heritage.

a civil engineer with an additional master’s degree in World Heritage Studies (Cottbus University), worked in Directorate-General of Antiquities & Museums, DGAM Syria until 2012. She worked in the Syrian Heritage Archive project in the Museum of Islamic Art. Currently she researches the Syrian collection in the Ethnological Museum (SMB), and she is a member of “Multaqa” project – Museum of Islamic Art (SMB). Also runs projects in Syria working with the locals- mainly women and children. One of the projects is to promote traditional handicrafts in Syria with special involvement of women.

She is holding a Bachelor of Commerce from Ain Shams University-Egypt, with an additional Master of Arts degree in Heritage conservation and site management from Helwan University and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg University. She worked in Syria, Egypt and Jordan in several cultural heritage management and sustainable development projects. She is working now in the renewable energy sector in Germany.

Ibrahim Kuntar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Minouseta. He is responsible for all the IT services of the association’s work and projects. He has extensive experience in the administration field, especially in the non-profit sector. One of his most important projects was designing a database for inventorying archaeological artifacts and sites, as well as inventorying the Idlib Museum.