DISCOVER ISLAMIC ART PROJECT TEAM CREDITS
These Credits refer to the period 2004 – 2007 (project co-funded by the European Union within Euromed Heritage III). For collaborations and contributions after this period please refer to the heading Contributions and collaborations since 2008 at the end of this list.
Local heads of project
Algeria
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (Mourad Betrouni)
Egypt
Secretary General, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture (Zahi Hawas)
Germany
Director, Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum (Claus-Peter Haase)
Italy
Director, National Museum of Oriental Art "G. Tucci", Rome (June 2004 – January 2005 Donatella Mazzeo; February 2005 – August 2006 Paola Torre; since September Silvana Balbi de Caro)
Jordan
President, Friends of Archaeology (Mohammad Najjar)
Morocco
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (June 2004 – March 2007 Abdeljalil Elhajraoui; since April 2007 Abdellah Saleh)
Palestinian Authority
Director General of Development and Planning, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Walid Sherif)
Portugal
Director, Archaeological Area and Museum of Mertola (ClaudioTorres)
Spain
Director, National Archaeological Museum (Rubí Sanz Gamo)
Sweden
Director, Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Sanne Houby-Nielsen)
Syria
Deputy Minister of Culture (Abdal-Razzaq Moaz)
Tunisia
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (Beji Benmami)
Turkey
Vice Rector, EGE University (Fikret Ikiz, represented by Inci Kuyulu Ersoy)
United Kingdom
Director, Visiting Arts (Terry Sandell until August 2005); since September 2005 the United Kingdom is represented by the four participating museums: the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museums Scotland, Glasgow Museums)
Local Coordinators
Algeria
Boussad Ouadi, Algiers
Egypt
Enaam Selim, Cairo
Italy
Irene Salerno, Rome
Jordan
Ghada Al-Yousef, Friends of Archaeology, Amman
Morocco
Naima Elkhatib-Boujibar, Casablanca
Palestinian Authority
Sa'd Nimr, Ramallah
Portugal
Santiago Macías, Mértola
Cristina Correia (awareness, fundraising, marketing)
Spain
Miguel García, Madrid
Syria
Zena Takieddine, Damascus (editorial coordinator)
Tunisia
Saloua Zangar, Tunis
Turkey
Mehmet Kahyaoglu (until August 2005); since September 2005 Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Izmir
Academic and Curatorial Advisory Board (also authors of forms for the Database)
Algeria
Lakhdar Drias, Ministry of Culture, Algiers
Houria Chérid, National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts, Algiers
Ali Lafer (monuments), Algiers
Egypt
Mohammad Abbas Selim, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Tarek Torky (monuments), Cairo
Germany
Jens Kröger, Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Italy
Paola Torre, National Museum of Oriental Art “G. Tucci”), Rome
Pier Paolo Racioppi (monuments), Rome
Jordan
Aida Nagawi Dodo, Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman
Ghazi Bisheh (monuments), Amman
Morocco
Naima Elkhatib Boujibar, Casablanca
Kamal Lakdar (monuments), Rabat
Mohamed Mezzine (monuments), Fez
Palestinian Authority
Khader Salameh, Islamic Museum and Al-Aqsa Library, Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem
Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Jerusalem
Yousef Natsheh (monuments), Jerusalem
Portugal
Claudio Torres, Santiago Macías, Archaeological Area and Museum of Mertola
Spain
Ángela Franco Mata, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
Sweden
Friederike Voigt, Berlin - Stockholm
Syria
Mona Al-Muadin, National Museum, Damascus
Abdal-Razzaq Moaz (monuments), Damascus
Tunisia
Mourad Rammah, Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan
Beji Benmami (monuments), Tunis
Jamila Binous (monuments), Tunis
Turkey
Sule Aksoy, Gönül Tekeli, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul
Inci Kuyulu Ersoy (monuments), EGE University, Izmir
Inci Türkoglu (monuments), Istanbul
United Kingdom
Sheila Canby, the British Museum, London
Barry Wood, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ulrike Al-Khamis, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Noorah Al-Gailani, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow
Assistant Curators (also authors of forms for the Database)
Algeria
Ali Benbella, Leila Merabet, National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts, Algiers
Egypt
Elsayed Hamad, Salah Sayaour, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Jordan
Manal Basyouni, Museum of Aqaba; Samarah Woroud, Museum of Al Ramtha
Palestinian Authority
Attiey Khatteb, Ramallah
Portugal
Maria da Conceição Amaral, Archaeological Museum Silves
Spain
Carmen Alonso, Margarita Sánchez, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
Syria
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Tunisia
Taha Khechine, Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan
Turkey
Sevinç Gök Gürhan, EGE University, Izmir
United Kingdom
Emily Shovelton, the British Museum, London
Further authors or co-authors of forms for the Database
Algeria
Djamel Souidi, Algiers
Germany
Annette Hagedorn, Berlin
Italy
Rita Bernini, Rome; Maria Reginella, Maria Ilaria Randazzo, Palermo; Paolo Barresi, Trapani
Jordan
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Portugal
Ana B. Alcoforado, Rodrigo Banha da Silva, António Borges Coelho, Fernando Branco Correia, Manuel J. C. Branco, Joaquim Caetano, Pedro Dias, Isabel C. Ferreira Fernandes, Cristina Garcia, Susana Gómez Martínez, Artur Goulart de Melo Borges, José Luís de Matos, António Pacheco, Paula Pelúcia Aparício, Lígia Rafael, Manuel Luís Real, Maria Q. Ribeiro, different cities
Syria
Samer Abdel-Ghafour, Wa'al Al-Hafian, Dina Bakkour, Haytam Hassan, Balász Mayor, Benjamin Michaudel, Zena Takkedine, different cities
Turkey
Sevgi Kutluay, Alev Özay, Seracettin Sahin, Cihat Soyhan, Museum of Turkish Islamic Art, Istanbul; Sedat Bayrakal, Sakir Çakmak, Semra Dasçi, Ertan Das Yekta Demiralp, Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Sebnem Tamcan, Harun Ürer, EGE University Izmir; Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Izmir
Academic Advising and Revision Database
Mohammad Al-Asad, Amman
Curators and authors of Virtual Exhibitions
See Exhibition credits
Artistic Introduction
Mohammad Al-Asad, Amman (architecture)
Barry Wood, Istanbul (minor arts)
Historical Cross Referencing
Algeria
Farida Benouis, Algiers
Croatia
Mirjana Repanic-Braun, Zagreb
Czech Republic
Zora Wörgötter, Brno
Egypt
Enaam Selim, Cairo
France
Emile Temime, Marseille
Germany
Annette Hagedorn, Berlin
Hungary
Terezia Bardi, Budapest
Italy
Saverio Capozzi, Irene Salerno, Rome
Jordan
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Morocco
Ahmed Ettahiri, Rabat
Palestinian Authority
Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Jerusalem
Portugal
Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Lisbon
Santiago Macias, Mértola
Spain
Jesús Martínez, Madrid
Sweden
Sofia Häggman, Stockholm
Syria
Zena Takieddine, Damascus
Tunisia
Saloua Zangar, Tunis
Turkey
Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Brussels; Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Izmir
United Kingdom
Sheila Canby, London; Ulrilke Al-Khamis, Edinburgh; Louise Reip, London
Website
Webdesign and development
Tentwelve, Brussels
Benoît Henken
Xavier Massaut
Olivier Wauters
Database design, implementation and programming
Pascal Havelange, Brussels
Design of editorial framework and editorial co-ordinator Database
Inci Türkoglu, Istanbul/Brussels
Design of editorial framework and editorial co-ordinator Virtual Exhibitions
Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Brussels
Learn with MWNF
Idea and Project development
Ángela García Blanco, María Jesús Rubio (National Archaeological Museum), Madrid
Texts
Ángela García Blanco, María Jesús Rubio
Production
Artesanos Digitales, Madrid
Pablo Palazuelos (Project director)
Esther Polo (Project manager)
Andrés Montes (Art director)
Juan Carlos de Bona, Iván Velasco (Webmasters)
Coordination
Sandra Stuyck, Madrid
Editors
Editors and copy-editing Arabic
Ahmed Ettahiri, Rabat (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Bashar Ibrahem, Damascus (Virtual Exhibitions)
Majd Musa, CSBE, Amman (Database)
Abbas Abbas, Damascus (Database, assistant copy-editor)
Editors and copy-editing English
Mandi Gomez, London (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Monica Allen, London (Database)
Editor and copy-editing French
Margot Cortez, Brussels (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Editor and copy-editing German
Martin Hager, Berlin (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editor and copy-editing Italian
Pier Paolo Racioppi, Rome (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editors and copy-editing Portuguese
Santiago Macias, Maria Paula Garcia Viana (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editors and copy-editing Spanish
Miguel García, Rosalía Aller, Madrid (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Lucía Rodríguez Corral (Database)
Editor and copy-editing Turkish
Inci Türkoglu, Istanbul
Coordination translation into Arabic
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Translators Database
Into Arabic
from the English Abbas Abbas, Nayef Al-Yasin, Hazar Emmran
from the French Ghada Al-Houssien, Hanan Kassab-Hassan, Rim Khattab
from the Italian Manaf Al-Damad
from the German Hani Saleh
from the Italian Manaf al-Damad
Coordination translation into Arabic
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Into English
from the Arabic Hilary Kalmbach, Amal Sachedina
from the German Maria Vlotides
from the French Maria Albertina Torres Broseta, Maria Vlotides, David Ash
from the Italian Laurence Nunny
from the Portuguese Gilla Evans
from the Spanish Laurence Nunny
from the Turkish Barry Wood, Inci Türkoglu
Into French
from the English Jacques Bosser
from the German Arlette Camion
from the Italian Marguerite Pozzoli
from the Portuguese Inés Oseki-Dépré
from the Spanish Benito Pelegrín
Into Spanish
from the English Lucía Arias Fernández, Yaiza Martínez, Lucía Rodríguez Corral
from the French Aurora Caballero García, Sakina Missoum, Laura Tortosa Rey-Stolle
from the Italian Carmen Mata Pastor
from the Portuguese Elisa Yagüe García
Translators Virtual Exhibitions
Into Arabic
from the English Fadel Jetker, Hanan Kassab-Hassan
from the French Ghada Al-Houssien
from the Italian Manaf Al-Damad
Into English
from the Italian and Spanish Laurence Nunny
Into French
from the English Jacques Bosser
from the Italian Marguerite Pozzlii
from the Spanish Margot Cortez
Into German
from the English Herwig Engelmann
from the English Martin Hager
from the Italian Ulrich Müller-Schöll
from the Spanish Aimée Torre Brons
Into Italian
from the English and Spanish Saverio Capozzi
Into Portuguese
from the English and Spanish Santiago Macias
Into Spanish
from the English Yaiza Martínez, Lucía Rodríguez Corral
from the Italian Miguel García
Into Turkish
from the English and French Alper Taspinars
Translators Artistic introduction
All from the English
into Arabic Majd Musa
into French La Compagnie des Mots
into Spanish Lucía Rodríguez Corral
Translators Historical Cross Referencing
From the French
into Arabic Ahmed Ettahiri
From the English
into French Odile Chalvet
Photographers
see Database
Plans of monuments and sites
Design and harmonisation
Sergio Viguera, Madrid
Aygül Uçar, Izmir (plans Turkish monuments)
Coordination
Sakina Missoum, Madrid
Visual communication and design
Christian Eckart, Vienna
Press officers
UK and English-speaking press
Sue Bond, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
France and French-speaking press
Isabelle Meglinky, Paris
Germany and German-speaking press
Annette Schäfer, Berlin
Technical Advisory Board
Aicha Benabed, Tunis
Cristina Correia, Lisbon
Amr Hamdy, Cairo
Javier Muñiz, Madrid
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Discover Islamic Art coordination team Brussels
Head of project
Eva Schubert
Assistant to the head of project
Mehmet Kahyaoglu
Office Manager
Isabel De Jesus Fonseca
Accountant
Lara Servais, Angel Fernández García, DTC
Administrative advisor
Christian Gérard, MTP
Legal advisors
Maarten Goiris
Contributions and collaborations since 2008
Content manager (since 09/2018)
Sarah Hönigschnabel, Vienna
Coordination of the editorial frame (2008 – 08/2018)
Maria Francesca Carvelli, Rome
Collaborators (different editorial tasks)
Nitsa Samur, Istanbul
Miho Sato, Tokyo
Translations
From English into Arabic
Database entries Explore Islamic Art Collections except where indicated differently at the bottom of the Database entry; Discover Islamic Art Partner Museum profiles; Islamic Dynasty profiles; Justifications for Related Objects and Monuments (all countries except those mentioned below)
Ahmad Bassel Radwan, Damascus (Syria)
Justifications for Related Objects and Monuments, Jordan
Gehad Eldesouky Elsayed, Mansoura (Egypt)
Justifications for Related Objects and Monuments, The British Museum
Lolav Jabar, Kani Kurda, KRG (Iraq)
Justifications for Related Objects and Monuments, Egypt, Palestine
Ruba Mansor, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
From English into Spanish
Islamic Dynasty profiles
María Clara Bori, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Beatriz Moreno Cuadrado (Spain)
Dennys Rivera, Sal Salvador (El Salvador)
Timeline
María Clara Bori, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Natalia Iglesias, Sevilla (Spain)
Elena Leo, Lisboa (Portugal)
Edith Peraza, Caracas (Venezuela)
Justifications for Related Objects and Monuments
Aida Gonzalvo (Spain)
David Maldonado (Arica, Chile)
Dennys Rivera, San Salvador (El Salvador)
Isaac Yglesias (United States)
From French, Italian, Spanish into English
Partner Museum profiles
Asad Islam (London, United Kingdom)
Islamic Dynasties page, replacing
Learn with MWNF (2006-2020)
Application programme interface (API)
Murat Görgüner (United Kingdom)
Development
Eva Woo, San Francisco (United States)
Database updates
Preigo Fover Technologies, Trivandrum (India)
Idea, methodology,
overall coordination
Eva Schubert
Webmasters
2003 – 2008
Webdesign and development
Tentwelve, Brussels (Belgium)
Database design, implementation
and programming
Pascal Havelange, Brussels (Belgium)
Since 11/2008
Database, development, webdesign
Preigo Fover Technologies, Trivandrum (India)
Database advisor and quality control
Pascal Havelange, Brussels (Belgium)
Webhost
Saphico, Brussels (Belgium)
MWNF DISCOVER ISLAMIC ART PROJECT TEAM CREDITS
These Credits refer to the period 2004 – 2007 (project co-funded by the European Union within Euromed Heritage III). For collaborations and contributions after this period please refer to the heading Contributions and collaborations since 2008 at the end of this list.
Local heads of project
Algeria
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (Mourad Betrouni)
Egypt
Secretary General, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture (Zahi Hawas)
Germany
Director, Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum (Claus-Peter Haase)
Italy
Director, National Museum of Oriental Art "G. Tucci", Rome (June 2004 – January 2005 Donatella Mazzeo; February 2005 – August 2006 Paola Torre; since September Silvana Balbi de Caro)
Jordan
President, Friends of Archaeology (Mohammad Najjar)
Morocco
Director General, Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism (Fawwaz Al-Khraysheh)
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (June 2004 – March 2007 Abdeljalil Elhajraoui; since April 2007 Abdellah Saleh)
Palestinian Authority
Director General of Development and Planning, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Walid Sherif)
Portugal
Director, Archaeological Area and Museum of Mertola (ClaudioTorres)
Spain
Director, National Archaeological Museum (Rubí Sanz Gamo)
Sweden
Director, Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Sanne Houby-Nielsen)
Syria
Deputy Minister of Culture (Abdal-Razzaq Moaz)
Tunisia
Director of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture (Beji Benmami)
Turkey
Vice Rector, EGE University (Fikret Ikiz, represented by Inci Kuyulu Ersoy)
United Kingdom
Director, Visiting Arts (Terry Sandell until August 2005); since September 2005 the United Kingdom is represented by the four participating museums: the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museums Scotland, Glasgow Museums)
Local Coordinators
Algeria
Boussad Ouadi, Algiers
Egypt
Enaam Selim, Cairo
Italy
Irene Salerno, Rome
Jordan
Ghada Al-Yousef, Friends of Archaeology, Amman
Morocco
Naima Elkhatib-Boujibar, Casablanca
Palestinian Authority
Sa'd Nimr, Ramallah
Portugaly
Santiago Macías, Mértola
Cristina Correia (awareness, fundraising, marketing)
Spain
Miguel García, Madrid
Syria
Zena Takieddine, Damascus (editorial coordinator)
Tunisia
Saloua Zangar, Tunis
Turkey
Mehmet Kahyaoglu (until August 2005); since September 2005 Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Izmir
Academic and Curatorial Advisory Board (also authors of forms for the Database)s
Algeria
Lakhdar Drias, Ministry of Culture, Algiers
Houria Chérid, National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts, Algiers
Ali Lafer (monuments), Algiers
Egypt
Mohammad Abbas Selim, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Tarek Torky (monuments), Cairo
Germany
Jens Kröger, Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Italy
Paola Torre, National Museum of Oriental Art “G. Tucci”), Rome
Pier Paolo Racioppi (monuments), Rome
Jordan
Aida Nagawi Dodo, Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman
Ghazi Bisheh (monuments), Amman
Morocco
Naima Elkhatib Boujibar, Casablanca
Kamal Lakdar (monuments), Rabat
Mohamed Mezzine (monuments), Fez
Palestinian Authority
Khader Salameh, Islamic Museum and Al-Aqsa Library, Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem
Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Jerusalem
Yousef Natsheh (monuments), Jerusalem
Portugal
Claudio Torres, Santiago Macías, Archaeological Area and Museum of Mertola
Spain
Ángela Franco Mata, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
Sweden
Friederike Voigt, Berlin - Stockholm
Syria
Mona Al-Muadin, National Museum, Damascus
Abdal-Razzaq Moaz (monuments), Damascus
Tunisia
Mourad Rammah, Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan
Beji Benmami (monuments), Tunis
Jamila Binous (monuments), Tunis
Turkey
Sule Aksoy, Gönül Tekeli, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul
Inci Kuyulu Ersoy (monuments), EGE University, Izmir
Inci Türkoglu (monuments), Istanbul
United Kingdom
Sheila Canby, the British Museum, London
Barry Wood, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ulrike Al-Khamis, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Noorah Al-Gailani, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow
Assistant Curators (also authors of forms for the Database)
Algeria
Ali Benbella, Leila Merabet, National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts, Algiers
Egypt
Elsayed Hamad, Salah Sayaour, Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Jordan
Manal Basyouni, Museum of Aqaba; Samarah Woroud, Museum of Al Ramtha
Palestinian Authority
Attiey Khatteb, Ramallah
Portugal
Maria da Conceição Amaral, Archaeological Museum Silves
Spain
Carmen Alonso, Margarita Sánchez, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
Syria
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Tunisia
Taha Khechine, Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan
Turkey
Sevinç Gök Gürhan, EGE University, Izmir
United Kingdom
Emily Shovelton, the British Museum, London
Further authors or co-authors of forms for the Database
Algeria
Djamel Souidi, Algiers
Germany
Annette Hagedorn, Berlin
Italy
Rita Bernini, Rome; Maria Reginella, Maria Ilaria Randazzo, Palermo; Paolo Barresi, Trapani
Jordan
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Portugal
Ana B. Alcoforado, Rodrigo Banha da Silva, António Borges Coelho, Fernando Branco Correia, Manuel J. C. Branco, Joaquim Caetano, Pedro Dias, Isabel C. Ferreira Fernandes, Cristina Garcia, Susana Gómez Martínez, Artur Goulart de Melo Borges, José Luís de Matos, António Pacheco, Paula Pelúcia Aparício, Lígia Rafael, Manuel Luís Real, Maria Q. Ribeiro, different cities
Syria
Samer Abdel-Ghafour, Wa'al Al-Hafian, Dina Bakkour, Haytam Hassan, Balász Mayor, Benjamin Michaudel, Zena Takkedine, different cities
Turkey
Sevgi Kutluay, Alev Özay, Seracettin Sahin, Cihat Soyhan, Museum of Turkish Islamic Art, Istanbul; Sedat Bayrakal, Sakir Çakmak, Semra Dasçi, Ertan Das Yekta Demiralp, Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Sebnem Tamcan, Harun Ürer, EGE University Izmir; Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Izmir
Academic Advising and Revision Database
Mohammad Al-Asad, Amman
Curators and authors of Virtual Exhibitions
See Exhibition credits
Artistic Introduction
Mohammad Al-Asad, Amman (architecture)
Barry Wood, Istanbul (minor arts)
Historical Cross Referencing
Algeria
Farida Benouis, Algiers
Croatia
Mirjana Repanic-Braun, Zagreb
Czech Republic
Zora Wörgötter, Brno
Egypt
Enaam Selim, Cairo
France
Emile Temime, Marseille
Germany
Annette Hagedorn, Berlin
Hungary
Terezia Bardi, Budapest
Italy
Saverio Capozzi, Irene Salerno, Rome
Jordan
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Morocco
Ahmed Ettahiri, Rabat
Palestinian Authority
Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Jerusalem
Portugal
Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Lisbon
Santiago Macias, Mértola
Spain
Jesús Martínez, Madrid
Sweden
Sofia Häggman, Stockholm
Syria
Zena Takieddine, Damascus
Tunisia
Saloua Zangar, Tunis
Turkey
Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Brussels; Inci Kuyulu Ersoy, Izmir
United Kingdom
Sheila Canby, London; Ulrilke Al-Khamis, Edinburgh; Louise Reip, London
Website
Webdesign and development
Tentwelve, Brussels
Benoît Henken
Xavier Massaut
Olivier Wauters
Database design, implementation and programming
Pascal Havelange, Brussels
Design of editorial framework and editorial co-ordinator Database
Inci Türkoglu, Istanbul/Brussels
Design of editorial framework and editorial co-ordinator Virtual Exhibitions
Mehmet Kahyaoglu, Brussels
Upload Database and Virtual Exhibitions Arabic
CSBE, Amman
Learn with MWNF
Idea and Project development
Ángela García Blanco, María Jesús Rubio (National Archaeological Museum), Madrid
Texts Production
Ángela García Blanco, María Jesús Rubio
Artesanos Digitales, Madrid
Pablo Palazuelos (Project director)
Esther Polo (Project manager)
Andrés Montes (Art director)
Coordination
Juan Carlos de Bona, Iván Velasco (Webmasters)
Sandra Stuyck, Madrid
Editors
Editors and copy-editing Arabic
Ahmed Ettahiri, Rabat (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Bashar Ibrahem, Damascus (Virtual Exhibitions)
Majd Musa, CSBE, Amman (Database)
Abbas Abbas, Damascus (Database, assistant copy-editor)
Editors and copy-editing English
Mandi Gomez, London (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Monica Allen, London (Database)
Editor and copy-editing French
Margot Cortez, Brussels (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Editor and copy-editing German
Martin Hager, Berlin (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editor and copy-editing Italian
Pier Paolo Racioppi, Rome (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editors and copy-editing Portuguese
Santiago Macias, Maria Paula Garcia Viana (Virtual Exhibitions)
Editors and copy-editing Spanish
Miguel García, Rosalía Aller, Madrid (Database, Virtual Exhibitions)
Lucía Rodríguez Corral (Database)
Editor and copy-editing Turkish
Inci Türkoglu, Istanbul
Coordination translation into Arabic
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Translators Database
Into Arabic
from the English Abbas Abbas, Nayef Al-Yasin, Hazar Emmran
from the French Ghada Al-Houssien, Hanan Kassab-Hassan, Rim Khattab
from the Italian Manaf Al-Damad
from the German Hani Saleh
from the Italian Manaf al-Damad
Coordination translation into Arabic
Verena Daiber, Damascus
Into English
from the Arabic Hilary Kalmbach, Amal Sachedina
from the German Maria Vlotides
from the French Maria Albertina Torres Broseta, Maria Vlotides, David Ash
from the Italian Laurence Nunny
from the Portuguese Gilla Evans
from the Spanish Laurence Nunny
from the Turkish Barry Wood, Inci Türkoglu
Into French
from the English Jacques Bosser
from the German Arlette Camion
from the Italian Marguerite Pozzoli
from the Portuguese Inés Oseki-Dépré
from the Spanish Benito Pelegrín
Into Spanish
from the English Lucía Arias Fernández, Yaiza Martínez, Lucía Rodríguez Corral
from the French Aurora Caballero García, Sakina Missoum, Laura Tortosa Rey-Stolle
from the Italian Carmen Mata Pastor
from the Portuguese Elisa Yagüe García
Translators Virtual Exhibitions
Into Arabic
from the English Fadel Jetker, Hanan Kassab-Hassan
from the French Ghada Al-Houssien
from the Italian Manaf Al-Damad
Into English
from the Italian and Spanish Laurence Nunny
Into French
from the English Jacques Bosser
from the Italian Marguerite Pozzlii
from the Spanish Margot Cortez
Into German
from the English Herwig Engelmann
from the English Martin Hager
from the Italian Ulrich Müller-Schöll
from the Spanish Aimée Torre Brons
Into Italian
from the English and Spanish Saverio Capozzi
Into Portuguese
from the English and Spanish Santiago Macias
Into Spanish
from the English Yaiza Martínez, Lucía Rodríguez Corral
from the Italian Miguel García
Into Turkish
from the English and French Alper Taspinars
Translators Artistic introduction
All from the English
into Arabic Majd Musa
into French La Compagnie des Mots
into Spanish Lucía Rodríguez Corral
Translators Historical Cross Referencing
From the French
into Arabic Ahmed Ettahiri
From the English
into French Odile Chalvet
Photographers
see Database
Plans of monuments and sites
Design and harmonisation
Sergio Viguera, Madrid
Aygül Uçar, Izmir (plans Turkish monuments)
Coordination
Sakina Missoum, Madrid
Visual communication and design
Christian Eckart, Vienna
Press officers
UK and English-speaking press
Sue Bond, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
France and French-speaking press
Isabelle Meglinky, Paris
Germany and German-speaking press
Annette Schäfer, Berlin
Technical Advisory Board
Aicha Benabed, Tunis
Cristina Correia, Lisbon
Amr Hamdy, Cairo
Javier Muñiz, Madrid
Mohammad Najjar, Amman
Discover Islamic Art coordination team Brussels
Head of project
Eva Schubert
Assistant to the head of project
Mehmet Kahyaoglu
Office Manager
Isabel De Jesus Fonseca
Accountant
Lara Servais, Angel Fernández García, DTC
Administrative advisor
Christian Gérard, MTP
Legal advisors
Maarten Goiris
Contributions and collaborations since 2008
Coordination of the editorial frame
Maria Francesca Carvelli, Rome
Collaborators (different editorial tasks)
Nitsa Samur, Istanbul
Miho Sato, Tokyo