Abdalrazzaq Moaz is senior fellow at Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany). He has held academic positions such as senior fellow at Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn University, and was appointed as Co-Director of ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives, Boston. He was also appointed as Deputy Minister of Culture (Syria, 2002-2007), as well as Director General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria, 2000-2002). He serves as acting dean of the Architecture Faculty at the Arab International University (formerly The European University , Syria). He received seven fellowships at Harvard University in different departments (History of Art and Architecture, History, Urban Planning, and Middle Eastern Studies) and was visiting Professor in different countries and universities (USA, Tokyo, Paris, and Granada). He was Pensionnaire Researcher at the Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas (IFEAD) and taught at Damascus University as well as at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, France. He was the head of the book project The Ayyubid Era, Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria (Vienna, 2015).

Research interests

Cultural heritage, Islamic History, History of Islamic Art and Architecture, in particular the relationship between texts, architecture and urbanism mainly in Syria.