Nadine Panayot
Consultant
She is the Archaeological Museum Curator at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Department of History and Archeology.
She holds a Doctorate in Archaeology, Classical Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations, from Paris 1 La Sorbonne.
Prior to her appointment at AUB, she was a faculty member at the University of Balamand (UOB) (1999-2020), and was appointed Director of the Research Department of Archaeology and Museology (2010-2020). She was also the founder and Chairperson of the Department of Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management (2013-2020), and curator of the Ethnographic museum at UOB since its inception, where she played a key role in its launching back in 2009.
She is a member of The International Council of Museums (ICOM) since 1992 and was member of the Executive Committee of ICOM – Lebanon (2011-2020). She is a former Member of the Executive Committee of ICOM – ARAB (2013-2019).
She joined The International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) since its inception in Lebanon in 2016.
She participated in several archaeological excavations in the Near East since 1992 with the Mission teams of the American University of Beirut Archaeological Museum, Paris 1 La Sorbonne and the Lebanese University, and has been the Principal Investigator for all the archaeological excavations of the University of Balamand.
For the past 10 years, her research’s mission focused on implementing the concept of Hima in the coastal town of Anfeh in her capacity of Anfeh Hima Director, with the help of the SPNL, the Municipality of Anfeh and the local community. The idea of Hima embraces the union of natural and cultural heritage conservation with the preservation of human dignity, identity and wellbeing.
She has been appointed:
– UNESCO Expert; in the framework of the project: Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage, since 09/2014.
– Advisor to the former Lebanese Minister of Culture [05/2010 – 09 /2010] as a member of the Executive Committee for the Management of Beirut Archaeological Excavations.
– Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Culture [07/2014 – 11/2014] as member of the Committee for re-writing the Lebanese Law of Antiquities.