*PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PRESENTATION IS TAKING PLACE IN THE ABBAZIA AS PART OF THE MAJLIS EXHIBITION, NOT IN THE CHURCH ITSELF*

Dr. Yannick Lintz is the Director of Islamic Arts of the Louvre. For her presentation, she will focus on forty different works of art that reflect the history of Islamic Art and exchanges of inspirations between the East and Europe.

Yannick LINTZ, Ph.D. in Achaemenid History (Sorbonne University), is Art Historian and has been Director of the Islamic Art Department in the Louvre Museum since 2013. Her position has set her on the road of international diplomatic and cultural projects with the Arab world, Iran, and Central Asia. In a recent context of Islamism and Islamophobia, she has created a National Network of Education in the double Heritage coming from East and West. She has organized an international group of Directors of the main Museums in the world concerned by this question. As Invited professor in the Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and in Senghor University (Alexandria, Egypt), she has taught classes on Museum Management and Heritage Education. She has also a large experience on Heritage in Danger through her previous position as Vice-Chairman of ICOM France during 2000 and 2009. Recently, she has created the PAPSI program focused on the safeguarding endangered cultural heritage in Syria and Iraqi. As member of the Scientific Committee of the Agency France Museums in charge to work for the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum project, she trained French curators on the idea of a Global History Museum from the point of view of the Islamic world. She has also developed an international expertise on Islamic Art Museums, their policies, their narratives, and their educative challenges.