Director of the School of Art
Dr. Yumna Masarwa is an art historian and an archaeologist. She has been the Director of the ACM-IAU Art School since 2021. She joined ACM-IAU in September 2013, where she teaches Muslim Presence in Europe, The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Islamic Art in Europe, Medieval Art and Architecture, and Crossroads in European Art. She has taught at several academic institutions such as Princeton University, INALCO Paris (Institut national deslangues et civilisations orientales), The New School: Parsons Paris, CIEE Paris (Council onInternational Educational Exchange), and the Paris College of Art. Dr. Masarwa has a B.A. inArchaeology and History from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), and M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. Her research focuses on combining medieval primary sources with material culture. She speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, and French.