Bassam DAYOUB
Ph. D. in Islamic Art and Archaeology
bdayoub@yahoo.fr
(+33) 07 77 79 10 27
3, Avenue de la Porte de Montrouge
Bat. 125
75014 Paris
Born on 20 July 1979 (40 y.o.)
Nationality: Syrian, French (since 2018)
Father of two
EDUCATION
2016
PhD in Islamic Art and Archaeology / University Paris 1 Panthéon-
Sorbonne, Paris
« The extra muros urban expansion of Damascus from from the Seljuk period to the end of
the Mamluk period : the example of the al-Mīdān district », Research director : prof. Alastair
Northedge.
2003 - 2004
French lessons / University of Damascus, Syria
2001 – 2003
Post graduate degree in classical Archaeology / University of Damascus,
Syria
LANGUAGE
Arabic (native), French (fluent), English (A2)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 -2019
3 years
Research assistant / Louvre Museum, Department of Islamic Art
Programme “PAPSI” (Projet de recensement des Archives sur le Patrimoine
islamique Syrien et Irakien) : Inventory of French Archives on Syrian and
Iraqi Islamic Heritage.
2013
10 months
Research assistant / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris
Project of a the topographic dictionnary of Damascus, under the direction of
Professor Jean-Michel Mouton.
2012
1month
Research assistant / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris
2011
2 months
Research assistant USR 3103, In Visu (CNRS-INHA)
Work on the key subject index of historical monuments of Cairo.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Depuis 2012
10 years
Literary Arabic and Syrian-Lebanese dialect teacher
ASPLEF (Association for the promotion of foreign languages in France.
Depuis 2012
10 years
Literary Arabic teacher
SKEMA Business School, Paris.
2003 - 2004
Teaching Assistant
University of Damascus, Syria
FIELDWORK
2008 – 2011
Member of the research group on Damascus gates (history,
epigraphy, architecture) under the direction of Professor Jean-Michel
Mouton.
2006 - 2010
Archaeological exploration of the al-Midan district, Damascus
Architectural and epigraphic studies of the medieval monuments
(mosque, mausoleum, zawiya)
2004 - 2006
Study of the walls and gates of Damascus in the context of the master
degree thesis.
PUBLICATIONS
Books - Maḥmal wa qāfilat al-ḥajj al-shāmī (The Maḥmal and caravans of the Syrian pilgrimage)
Dār al-’Aws, Damas, 2012. (available for reading on Google books).
Articles in international journals with reading committee - «Waqfiyataī al-Madrasa al-Qajmāsiyya, dirāsa wa taḥqīq » (Two waqf documents of the
al-Qajmasiyya Madras in Damascus: edition and study), Chronos, Université de
Balamand, sous presse. En collaboration avec Maysa IBRAHIM. - «Kashf al-lithām ‘an maṣāḥif ‘Uthmān fī al-Shām » (The muṣḥaf of ‘Uthman in Shām),
Chronos, Université de Balamand, n° 24, 2021, p. 217-236.
« Épitaphes du Cimetière d’al-Bawwāba ou de Bāb Allāh du Mīdān à Damas : étude et
analyse » (Epitaphs from the Cemetery of al-Bawwāba or Bāb Allāh of Mīdān in Damascus:
study and analysis) , BEO, n° 67, 2020, p. 133-158. - «Salāḥ al-Dīn wa al-’ashrāf al-‘Alawiyyīn fī Dimashq min khilāl naqsh kitābī jadīd »
(Saladin and the sharīf of Damascus through a new inscription), Chronos, Université de
Balamand, n° 37, 2018, p. 193-210. - « Une saison damascène, 1874-1875 » (A Damascene Season, 1874-1875), dans Maryse
BIDEAULT, Estelle THIBAULT,
Mercedes VOLAIT (éd.), De l’Orient à la mathématique de l’ornement : Jules Bourgoin
(1838-1908)”, Éditions A. et J. Picard, Paris, 2015, p. 91-114. En collaboration avec
Maryse BIDEAULT. - « al-Sūr al-thānī li madīnat Dimashq. I‘ādat al-iktishāf (The re-discovery of the second
walls of Damascus) », Chronos, Université de Balamand, n° 29, 2014, p. 153-182. - « Nouvelles découvertes dans le quartier du Mīdān : identification de quatre monuments
mamelouks » (New discoveries in the Mīdān district: identification of four Mamluk
monuments), Bulletin d'études orientales, vol. XLI, 2012, p. 67-93. - « Sūr Dimashq : al-tārīkh wa al-taṭawur min khilāl al-maṣādir al-‘arabiyya al-’islāmiyya »
(Damascus walls : history and development through the Lens of Arabic sources),
Chronos, Université de Balamand, n° 25, 2012, p. 223-241. - « Les Qubbat al-Naṣr de Damas et de ses environs à l'époque mamelouke » (The Qubbat al
Naṣr of Damascus and its surroundings during the Mamluk era), Egypt and
Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras V, Gand, 2012, p. 507-527. En
collaboration avec Jean-Michel MOUTON. - « Waqfiyyat ‘ā’ilat al-’Uḍah Bāshī al-dimashqiyyah » (The waqf document of the
damascene family of al-’Uḍah Bāshī), al-‘Awqāf , t. XXI, 2011, p. 101-140. - « Témoignages épigraphiques damascains sur un šayḫ méconnu d'époque ayyoubide »
(Damascan epigraphic testimonies on an unrecognized šayḫ from the Ayyubid period),
Der Islam, vol. 87, mars 2010, p. 185-203. En collaboration avec Jean-Michel MOUTON,
Dominique SOURDEL, Janine SOURDEL-THOMINE.
