Stéphane PRADINES

Fonctions et responsabilités

2018 – 2026: Full Professor of Muslim Art, Architecture & Archaeology, ISMC-AKU, London
2012 – 2018: Associate Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology, ISMC, Aga Khan University, London
2005 – 2012: Archaeologist; Head of the Islamic Archaeology Department, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, Egypt
2001 – 2005: Scientific Member, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, Egypt
1998 – 2001: Assistant Director, Société des Africanistes, Museum of Mankind, Paris
1997 – 1998: Assistant Director & Webmaster, Department of Sub-Saharan Africa, Museum of Mankind, Paris
1997: Civil National Service; Assistant Curator, Photo Library, Museum of Mankind, Paris
1996: Civil National Service (Archaeologist, Mayor of Quimper, Brittany)

Membership of Professional Societies

Member of the Academic Council of the History of Fortification Study Centre, Moscow
Member of the Arms and Armour Society, London
Member of the Castle Studies Group, UK
Member of the Islamic Art Historians Association, USA
Member of Steering Committee of the Africanist Society, Paris

Editorial Activities

Founding Co-Editor

2025 – Present: Co-founder and co-editor of the Indian Ocean Cultures Book series, Brill -De Gruyter
2020 – Present: Founder and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW). The Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World is a leading reference for field archaeologists, (art) historians, anthropologists, curators, as well as scholars and students of (art) history, archaeology, architecture, anthropology, and ethnography of the Muslim world. Its readership reflects a broader definition of material culture, encompassing not only artefacts, architectural structures, and monuments, but also crafts. The journal contributes to other disciplines and historiographies by including, for example, archaeological field surveys. It also focuses on underexplored Muslim regions beyond the Middle East and North Africa, including sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Editorial Board Memberships

2026: Member of the Research Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society
2019: Advisory Board member, The Journal of Islamic Research, Ankara University Faculty of Divinity, Ankara, Turkiye
2016 – Present: Member of the Academic Council of the History of Fortification Study Centre, Moscow
2015 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board, Islamic Archaeological Studies, Journal of the Islamic Art Museum, Cairo
2014 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain (MIDEO), Dominican Institute, Cairo
2014 -2018: Book review editor and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Islamic Archaeology (Equinox)

Directed Archaeological Field Projects

2026: Chief of the archaeological mission in Lahori Bandar, Pakistan
2019-2023: Chief of the archaeological mission in Lahore Fort, Pakistan
2022: Chief of the archaeological mission in Mutsamudu, Anjouan, Comoros
2018-2023: Co-Director with Pierre Blanchard (Wmf), Kua Project (Mafia Island), Tanzania
2017: Chief of the archaeological mission in Fenfushi and Hulumeedhoo mosques, Maldives
2011 – 2015: Director of Excavations in Dembéni, Mayotte, French Comoros
2009: Surveys in Mayotte, French Comoros
2008: Co-Director with F.-X. Fauvelle and B. Hirsch of the excavations in Nora, Ethiopia
2004 – 2006: Director of Excavations of Kilwa, Tanzania
2000-2016: Director of Excavations of the Walls of Cairo, Egypt
1999 – 2003: Director of Excavations of Gedi, Kenya
1998: Surveys in Northern Kenya and Lamu archipelago
1993: Surveys of the Megaliths in the districts of Fatick and Kaymor, Senegal

Thèmes de recherche

Swahili World
Indian Ocean Archaeology
Islamic architecture
Muslim Material Cultures
Urban archaeology
Warfare, arms and Fortifications
Egyptian archaeology
Muslim Heritage and Conservation

Informations complémentaires

Building partnerships & Memorandums of Understanding (MoU)

2022: MoU with Georgetown University in Doha
MoU established between ISMC AKU and Georgetown UniversityProfessor Pradines managed an Indian Ocean network and research programme to build local, national, and international partnerships and cooperation with numerous national institutions, NGOs, universities, and scientific institutes.
2021: MoU with the Maldives and recruitment of Maldivian students
MoU signed with the Maldivian Ministry of Education on 27 May 2021. At the initiative of Professor Pradines, ISMC agreed to admit Maldivian students each year, with part of the tuition fees covered by the Maldivian Ministry of Higher Education. This represents the first partnership agreement between ISMC-AKU and a foreign government, and the first instance of a government covering students’ fees.
2019: MoU with Research Indian Ocean (RIO), German University of Technology in Oman
On 19 August 2019, an MoU was signed with the German University of Technology in Oman (Muscat). The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) and the Aga Khan University (International), United Kingdom, through its Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), agreed to promote and encourage scientific and academic collaboration, strengthen academic linkages, and enrich the understanding of the Indian Ocean. The MoU was renewed in November 2021
2019: MoU with the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada)
The agreement supports the publication of a new peer-reviewed academic journal, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW), in full open access. With the support of the University and the Museum, all author charges are waived.
2018: MoU with the University of Cape Town (Zamani Project), South Africa; World Monuments Fund; and Tanzanian Antiquities.Archaeological excavations, conservation, and creation of a site museum for the nomination of a Tanzanian site to the UNESCO World Heritage List
2018: MoU with Google Arts & Culture, King’s Cross, London
MoU partnership agreement with the Google Cultural Institute, including Google Arts & Culture, an initiative partnering with museums, archives, and cultural institutions to bring the world’s cultural heritage online. Professor Pradines collaborates with Google by providing expertise, knowledge, and iconography for the platform. He authored web pages on African sites and Indian Ocean and Swahili culture. In return, Google promotes his research and provided him with free access to CyArk 3D models (used, for example, in his contribution to the Atlas of African History)
2017: MoU with the Maldives
MoU signed with the Maldivian Heritage Department for excavations and a field school on the coral mosques of the Maldives
2014 – 2024: MoU with the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS)
Academic and scientific advisor for the production of a 3D model of Fatimid Cairo
Partner institutions: Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) and ISMC, Aga Khan University

Professional experience in managing research

2018-2024: Manager of the Muslim Cultures in the Indian Ocean research program. Manager of the Indian Ocean research program focusing mainly on Muslim Heritage, especially on the Maritime Silk Roads between China, India, and Africa. Following recent workshops organized by UNESCO, this program supported the notion of protection, conservation, and heritage management of Indian Ocean cultures. Our research on material and immaterial cultures in the Indian Ocean focuses on texts, objects, sites, and monuments. Maritime heritage is at risk with global warming and rising sea levels. Digital humanities were part of the Indian Ocean program with 3D scans of existing monuments in Kua, Tanzania; and virtual computer models of Fatimid Cairo, based on the data produced by our excavations in Egypt, in collaboration with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Research and education were strongly connected in this program. Archaeology and conservation field schools were created in Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Maldives and Pakistan, to support and strengthen our local networks and to provide new opportunities for young scholars to learn from the field, and to study abroad. I developed a core course; ‘Worlds of the Greater Indian Ocean’ for the AKU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an “Asian and Indian Ocean Summer school” in Lisbon in partnership with the Catholic University of Portugal. Finally, several MoU were signed during the program to support sustainable development and capacity training to train local populations to maintain these sites and to benefit from them through an eco-responsible tourism.
2012-2015: Co-Director of the Warfare & Cultures in the Medieval Middle East International program. The multidisciplinary program was created to identify and to analyses the cultures of war, to understand how the war model deeply influenced the Muslim societies. Several seminars and sub-research programs were organized around this theme. I was also in charge of the sub-program “Forts and Ports” and I organized an international panel in Istanbul around the theme “Fortified Cities and Fortified Harbors”. I published a collective volume around this panel with ten contributions. Partner institutions: French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO); French Institute in Near East, Beirut-Damascus (IFPO).
2008-2011: Co-Director of the War & Peace in the Medieval Middle East International program. This multidisciplinary program (history, archaeology and anthropology) aimed to create a new discipline amongst the historians and archaeologists working on the Medieval Middle East: a social history of war. Our project ended with two major conferences and two books: the first conference was organized in Damascus in 2010 and the second conference was organized in Cairo in 2011. The first volume, around historiography of war and the discipline, was published in 2015: Guerre dans le Proche-Orient médieval; and the second volume, around recent case studies Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval, x^e-xv^e siècles, is expected to be published in May 2018. During these four years, I was also in charge of a sub-program called “Fortifications of Medieval Egypt” and I’m preparing a book around this topic. Partner institutions: French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO); French Institute in Near East, Beirut-Damascus (IFPO).

Professional experience as Indian Ocean heritage expert

2024-2025: UNESCO World Heritage List expert for Swahili architecture in Comoros
2018-2023: World Monument Fund (WMF) Expert for heritage sites, Government of Tanzania
2019: UNESCO World Heritage List expert for Indian Ocean sites (Paris & RIO, Muscat)
2018-2020: Google Arts & Culture Expert: Swahili Culture Heritage at Risk and Global Warming
2017: UNESCO World Heritage List expert on the coral stone mosques of the Maldives
2017: UNESCO/UCL World Heritage List expert workshop on the serial nomination of the Maritime Silk Routes Heritage
2003 – Present: UNESCO World Heritage List expert for Swahili World (East Africa)

Professional Experience with museums and exhibitions curated

2025-2026: Louvre Abu Dhabi, Indian Ocean Exhibition Expert for Chinese Ceramics in Swahili and Omani architecture
2025-2026: Museum of Islamic Arts, Qatar, Indian Ocean exhibition specialist for east Africa and Swahili arts
2024-2025: Louvre Museum, participation to the Mamluk Exhibition with two papers for the Catalogue and a public lecture
2025: Public lecture at al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
2024: Public lecture at Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
2024: Public lecture at The Oriental Ceramic Society of France, Cernuschi Museum, Paris
2024: Public lecture at Musée Georges Labit, Toulouse
2023: Dubai Culture Museums (DCAA), Review and valuation of arms and armour collection, UAE
2022: Public lecture and scientific support for a Museum of Islamic Art and Traditions in the Comoros, CNDRS, National Museum of Comoros
2023: Creation of a site museum in Kua, Juani Island, Mafia District, Tanzania. Provide expertise, support, and assistance to the National Museum of Tanzania and the WMF.
2022- Present: Member of the Advisory Committee for the Lusail Museum, Doha, Qatar
2022: Participation to a project of Exhibition at the Louvre, “Cairo, the mother of the world. Expert for Fatimid and Ayyubid arts and architecture
2021 : Public lecture at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris,
2020 – 2021: Black monuments matter. A virtual exhibition of Sub-Saharan architecture. Covid-19 Digital Exhibition organizer and co-curator with Heinz Ruther (Cape town university), hosted by the Aga Khan Centre and Zamani project.
2020: Expert Workshop Middle East & Asia for Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds
2019: Public lecture and conference at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2018: Curator of the exhibition Indian Ocean architecture, ISMC-AKU, Aga Khan Centre, London
2018: Curator of the Exhibition Pierre Loti, les trésors révélés, la collection d’armes orientales, Rochefort, France
2018 : Public lecture at Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris
2018: Public lecture on Indian Ocean Trade at the Louvre Museum, Paris
2016: Public lecture at the Islamic Art Museum, Cairo, Egypt
2014: Conference at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
1998-1999 : Public lectures at the musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
1998: Member of Scientific Committee of the exhibition « De terre, de paille et de bois : symbolique de l’architecture en Afrique noire », Museum of Mankind , Paris

Professional experience in Digital Humanities

2026: Digital survey of endangered heritage in the Indus Delta, Pakistan
Satellite, GPS, LiDAR, and drone survey of historical port cities threatened by rising sea levels and global warming
2020 – 2021: Black Monuments Matter, a virtual exhibition of Sub-Saharan architecture; digital humanities and exhibition curator with Heinz Ruther (University of Cape Town), hosted by the Aga Khan Centre and the Zamani Project, with the support of ISMC-AKU
2020: Launch of the Google website Heritage on the Edge
Digital humanities lead and MoU as Google Arts & Culture Expert; development and launch of website pages on Kilwa and the Swahili
2018: 3D laser scan of a Swahili site (Kua, Mafia, Tanzania), accessible on the Zamani website
2014 – Present: Creation of a virtual city model of Fatimid Cairo through the interpretation of existing historical and material research on the Fatimids. The main objective is to produce a 3D computer model for multiple uses, particularly in education, schools, and museums. The project also includes the development of a “Digital Archive of Fatimid Cairo,” where research data and working models are made accessible to students and researchers.
2008-2011: GIS on ArcGIS on Fortifications of Medieval Egypt. In collaboration with prof Osma Talaat, Prof. sami al-Malik and Dr. Tarek Morsy.
2004: APIM – Atlas of Ports and Maritime Routes of the Muslim World. Collaboration with the CNRS on the creation of a GIS-based infomap to illustrate maritime networks in the Muslim world between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
1997-1999: Creation and management of websites for the Musée de l’Homme. Creation and web management of the first websites for the Department of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Society of Africanists, and the photo library of the Musée de l’Homme, Paris.

Honors, Awards, and Nominations

Research Awards

2006: Prix Clio (prestigious award for French archaeologists)
1998: Lauréat aux Prêts d’honneur aux Jeunes (Fondation de France)
Prestigious award for young French Entrepreneurs

Certificates or Awards received for teaching and mentoring of students

2016: Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education, University College London (IOE)
2016: Egyptian Award “Gratitude and Appreciation to the Honorable Professor Stephane Pradines for his collaboration with the Archaeology department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University Cairo”

Research Grants

Total Funding Awarded as PI ≈ $1,101,540 USD

2025–2026
- Lahori Bander and Endangered Sites from Eastern Delta, Sindh, Pakistan — Max van Berchem Foundation — €12,000
- Lahori Bander and Endangered Sites from Eastern Delta, Sindh, Pakistan — ALIPH Foundation — $75,000
2023–2024
- Lahore Fort — AKU URC — $25,000
2022
- Mutsamudu — Patrimoine des Comores — €10,000
2019
- Lahore Fort — AKTC — $9,000
2018
- Pierre Loti’s Catalogue — Arms and Armour Society — £500
- Kua Project, Mafia Island, Tanzania — URC–AKU — $25,000
2017
- Coral Mosques of the Maldives Project — Max van Berchem Foundation — €9,000
- Coral Mosques of the Maldives Project — UNESCO New Delhi — €3,000
- Travel Grant (Book completion & post-excavation studies) — IFAO Cairo — €2,000
2016
- Excavations, Medieval Walls of Cairo — IFAO / French Ministry of Education — €44,000
- Post-excavation studies, Mayotte — French Ministry of Culture — €14,100
2015
- Excavations in Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology, Cairo — €17,000
- Research Programme: War and Cultures — French Institute of Archaeology — €3,000
- Excavations in East Africa (Mayotte) — General Council of Mayotte & Prefecture — €15,000
- Excavations Dembeni, Mayotte — DRAC — €15,000
2014
- Excavations in Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €17,000
- Research Programme: War and Cultures — €3,000
- Research Programme: Forts and Ports — €3,000
- Excavations in East Africa (Mayotte) — €18,000
- Panel Istanbul – Forts and Ports (IFAO-IFPO) — €6,000
- Excavations Dembeni, Mayotte — €18,000
2013
- Excavations Egypt — IFAO — €17,000
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €3,000
- War and Culture — IFAO — €2,000
- Forts and Ports — IFAO — €6,000
- Excavations East Africa (Mayotte) — Ministry of Culture & Prefecture — €10,000
- Excavations East Africa (Mayotte) — Conseil General — €5,000
- International Research Programme Guerre et Culture — €3,000
- Excavations Dembeni — €15,000
2012
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €28,000
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €9,000
- International Research Programme Guerre et Culture — €3,000
2011
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €46,950
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €4,500
- Conference Cairo — Programme Guerre et Paix — €30,550
- Excavations Dembeni, Mayotte — €8,200
2010
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €52,297
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €9,000
- Conference Damascus — Programme Guerre et Paix — €20,000
2009
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €30,952
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €9,195
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $59,865.80
- Programme Guerre et Paix — €6,100
- Mayotte Survey — Association Naturaliste de Mayotte — €1,470
2008
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €26,789
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $33,523
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €9,000
- Programme Guerre et Paix — €6,100
2007
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €24,675
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $28,369
- Excavations Egypt — MAEE — €9,000
2006
- Excavations Egypt — Prix Clio — €1,500
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €23,675
- Excavations Sanje ya Kati, Kilwa — €12,000
2005
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €18,000
2004
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €15,000
- Excavations Songo Mnara, Kilwa — €12,000
2003
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €6,000
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $20,000
- Excavations Gedi, Kenya — MAEE — €6,000
- International Seminar Islamic Archaeology — €3,000
2002
- Excavations Egypt — French Institute of Archaeology — €6,000
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $20,000
- Excavations Gedi, Kenya — €6,000
2001
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $10,000
- Excavations Gedi, Kenya — €6,000
2000
- Excavations Egypt — AKTC — $8,000
1999
- Excavations Gedi, Kenya — Fondation de France — €1,500
1998
- PhD Survey Kenyan Coast — IFRA — €600

Education

2001: Ph.D. in Islamic Archaeology, Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
Thesis title: “Swahili Fortifications and Urbanisation” (Supervisor: Late Prof. Marianne Barrucand) Highest distinction: Très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité (very honorable with unanimous congratulations from the jury)
1995: M.Phil. in African History, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I)
Thesis title: “Senegalese Archaeology, Funerary Mounds”
1995: International Certificate in African Archaeology, Université Libre de Bruxelles
1994: M.A. in Arts and African Archaeology, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I)
M.A. thesis title: “Mosques in East Africa”
1991 – 1993: B.A. in Arts and Archaeology, specialisation in Foreign Archaeology (Africa, Middle East, Mesoamerica, Oceania), Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I)

Publications

Books – Monographs

2022 – Historic mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, Brill, Leiden,
2019 – La collection d’armes orientales de Pierre Loti, Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Rochefort, Indes Savantes, 159 p.
2010 – Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale, Monographies d’archéologie islamique, IFAO, Le Caire, 302 p.
2004 – Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 58, BAR S1216, Archaeopress, Oxford, 374 p.

Books – Edited volumes

2024- Stephane Pradines, Mayotte au temps des Califes (IX^e-XII^e siècle). Archéologie de l’Océan Indien à Ironi Be, Commune de Dembeni, British archaeological report S3199, Archaeopress, Oxford, 270 p.
2023 – co-edited with Farouk Topan, Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean. Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present, Edinburgh university press, 356p.
2020 – Ports and Forts of the Muslims. Coastal Military Architecture, from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period, IFAO (French institute of Archaeology), Cairo.
2019 – Co-edited with Mathieu Eychenne and Abbès Zouache, Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval, x^e-xv^e siècles. Histoire, archéologie et anthropologie, IFAO / IFPO, Cairo, 574 p.
2018 – Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, BRILL, Leiden, 283 p.
2016 – “The Sphero-conical vessel. A debate over the fire grenades and powder in the Muslim World”, Special issue: Journal of Islamic archaeology 3-2 Equinox, Sheffield
2004 – « Recherches archéologiques récentes en Islam médiéval avec deux parties : Espaces fortifiés et Ports et commerce », Special issue: Annales Islamologiques 38-1, IFAO, Cairo, 284 p.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2026 – Stephane Pradines & Helene Renel, “Asian ceramics in dialog with Swahili architecture. Wangwana trading networks and Indian Ocean kinships”, Monsoon journal 4-1, Duke University Press, 62-85.
2025 – “The Architectural History of the Citadel of Cairo, from the Ayyubids to the Ottomans”, Castle Study Group Journal 39, 122-150.
2025 – with Olivier Onezime, “The Ujumbe of Mutsamudu, an 18th century Swahili stone house in the Comoros”, Journal18, Issue 19 Africa: Beyond Borders, (Spring 2024), https://www.journal18.org/7780.
2024 – with Iñigo Almela and Helene Renel, “Archaeological excavation report on the Akbari hammam in Lahore Fort, 2019”, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW) Volume 5: Issue 1-2, Brill, Leiden, pp 62-91.
2024 – with Olivier Onezime, “Functions and historical significance of Swahili wall niches”, Nouvelles Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 19, pp. 137-219.
2024 – “The ‘Trees from the sea’. Coral architectures and Indian Ocean maritime resources”, Journal of Research in Architecture & Planning 34-1, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, 2024, p. 1-17.
2021 – with Fabien Balestra, “Excavations on the Coral Mosques of the Maldives”, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 2, pp. 200–226.
2021 – “Archaeological Excavations of Bāb al-Ghurayb Cemetery: Plague Epidemics and the Ruin of Fourteenth Century Cairo”, Mamluk Studies Review XXIV (2021), Chicago, pp. 119-170.
2021 – “From the Ribats to the Fortresses, the Fāṭimid Period of Transition in Muslim Military Architecture”, International Journal of Islamic Research, Ankara, pp. 493-514.
2021 – with Blanchard, Pierre. “From Zanzibar to Kilwa: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Omani Forts in East Africa”, Fort 47, pp. 39-69.
2021 – “A short note on the Masdhayi Fiyohi traditional knife of the Maldives” Journal of the Arms and armour Society, Volume 23-2, p. 97-107
2021 – “Islamic Archaeology in the Comoros: The Swahili and the Rock Crystal Trade with the Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates” in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 6.1, p. 109–134.
2019 – “Swahili Archaeology”. In: Smith C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, Cham, second edition.
2019 – “Redrawing the Boundaries: Excavating Cairo’s Islamic Walls” in the Egyptian Archaeology Journal 52, Egypt Exploration Society, London, pp. 15-19.
2019 – “On Fatimid Gardens. A Note on the Darrāsa Excavations” In The World of the Fatimids, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani Editor, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, pp. 68-69.
2019 – With Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani, “Sufi in War: Persian influence on African weaponry in 19th century Mahdist Sudan”, in The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (JAAS), Vol. 22-5, London, pp. 254-279.
2019 – “Swahili past in peril. New archaeology in East Africa” in Journal of oriental and African studies 26, Athens, pp. 211-236
2019 – “The Medieval mosques of Nora. Islamic architecture in Ethiopia” in Journal of oriental and African studies 26, Athens, pp. 33-79.
2019 – “A Late Military Use of the Sphero-conical in the 19th Century Sudan” in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 3.2, Equinox Publishing, Sheffield, pp. 233–242.
2019 – “The Sphero-conical Vessel: A Difficult Interpretation between Historical Sources and Archaeology” in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 3.2, Equinox Publishing, Sheffield, pp.153–162.
2019 – “The Mamluk Fortifications of Egypt”, Mamluk Studies Review Vol. 19, University of Chicago, pp. 1-54.
2019 – with Sher Rahmat Khan, « Fātịmid gardens: archaeological and historical perspectives”, Bulletin of SOAS, University of London, pp.1-30.
2019 – “Portuguese fortresses in East Africa” in Forts 44, Fortress Study Group, Totton, p. 50-75.
2016 – Burg al-Zafar, architecture de passage des Fatimides aux Ayyoubides, in Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras VIII, Vermeulen U., D’hulster K., Van Steenbergen J. Editors,Proceedings of the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd International Colloquium Organized at Ghent University in May 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, Peeters, Leuven , p. 51-119.
2016 – « Le Qalat al-Qabsh et les forteresses abbasides d’Egypte », in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 23, p. 86-114.
2016 – with Pierre Blanchard, « Songo Mnara. Etude architecturale d’une ville swahilie médiévale», dans Taarifa 5, Publication des archives départementales de Mayotte, Mamoudzou, p. 9-33.
2016 – « Architecture militaire française au Caire, de 1798 à 1801 », in Annales islamologiques 48.2, IFAO, Le Caire, p. 269-320.
2016 – Les fortifications fatimides, Xe- XIIe siècle (Ifriqiyya, Misr et Bilâd al-Šam) in Historiographie de la guerre dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (x^e-xv^e siècle). Co-édition Ifao-Ifpo, Le Caire / Damas, p. 231-276.
2014 – “Napoleonic Fortifications in Egypt 1798-1801” in Forts 42, Fortress Study Group, Totton, p. 88-116.
2014 – « Les villes médiévales swahilies : une perspective est-africaine », dans Taarifa 4, Publication des archives départementales de Mayotte, Mamoudzou, p. 9-27.
2014 – “Swahili Archaeology. Islamic Archaeology in Eastern Africa”, Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology, Smith, Claire Ed., Springer, New York, p.7162-7173.
2012 – « Les murailles du Caire, de Saladin à Napoléon », dans Comptes rendus de l’Académie, CRAI 2012-II, Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres, Paris, p. 1027-1063.
2011 – « Commerce maritime et islamisation dans l’océan Indien : les premières mosquées swahilies (XIe-XIIIe siècles) », dans La mer et le sacré dans le monde musulman, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée n°130, Presses universitaires de Provence, p. 131-149.
2011 – « Les murailles de Creswell. Approche historiographique des fortifications du Caire », Mishkah 5, Egyptian Journal of Islamic Archaeology, SCA, Cairo, p. 67-107.
2010 – François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, Bertrand Hirsch, Clément Ménard, Romain Mensan, Stéphane Pradines. « Archéologie et histoire de l’Islam dans la Corne de l’Afrique : état des recherches », Civilta del mediterraneo, n°16-17, Ed. Di Storia e Leteratura, p. 29-58.
2009 – Stéphane Pradines, Diane Laville, Maia Matkowski, Julie Monchamp, Niall OHora, Magdi Sulayman et Tarek Zurrud. “Excavations of the Archaeological Triangle. 10 years of Archaeological excavations in Fatimid Cairo (2000 to 2009)” dans Mishkah, vol. 4, p. 177-219.
2009 – « L’île de Sanjé ya Kati (Kilwa, Tanzanie). Un mythe Shirâzi bien réel », Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 44, Issue 1, Routledge, p. 49 – 73.
2008 – with Johannes Den Heijer. « Bâb al-Tawfîq : une porte du Caire fatimide oubliée par l’histoire », Le Muséon 121, Peeters, Louvain, p. 143-170.
2007 – with Osama Talaat. « Les fortifications fatimides du Caire : Bâb al-Tawfiq et l’enceinte en briques crues de Badr al-Gamâlî », Annales Islamologiques 41, IFAO, Le Caire, p. 229-275.
2007 – « Les sites du Parking Darassa et de Bâb al-Tawfiq, Le Caire. Résultats des fouilles de 2001 à 2005 », Mishkah, vol. 2, SCA, Le Caire, p. 123-146.
2005 – with Pierre Blanchard, « Kilwa al-Mulûk. Premier bilan des travaux de conservation-restauration et des fouilles archéologiques dans la baie de Kilwa, Tanzanie », Annales Islamologiques 39, IFAO, Le Caire, p.25-80.
2004 – « Note préliminaire sur un atelier de pipes ottomanes à l’est du Caire », Cahiers de la céramique Egyptienne, n°7, IFAO, Le Caire, p. 281-291.
2003 – « Le mihrab swahili : Evolution d’une architecture islamique en Afrique subsaharienne», Annales Islamologiques 37, IFAO, Le Caire, p. 355-381.
2002 – « L’art de la guerre chez les Swahili : les premiers forts d’Afrique orientale», Journal des Africanistes 72-2, Société des Africanistes, Paris, p. 71-87.
2002 – with S. Michaudel, B. & Monchamp, J. « La muraille ayyoubide du Caire : les fouilles archéologiques de Bab el Barqiyya à Bab el Mahrouq», Annales Islamologiques 36, IFAO, Le Caire, p. 287-337.
2002 – « Des forts omanais en Afrique orientale : une protection des intérêts économiques du sultanat de Zanzibar », La défense des côtes et cartographie historique, CTHS, Paris, p. 163-180.
2002 – « La bipartition des cités swahili : l’exemple de Gedi (Kenya) », in Southern Africa and the Swahili World, Studies in the African Past n°2, 2002, University of Dar es Salaam Press, p. 66-75.
2001 – « L’enceinte urbaine du Caire ayyoubide : résultats préliminaires de la mission 2000 », Archéologie islamique, n°11, Maisonneuve Larose, Paris, p. 195-200.
2001 – « Les céramiques sénégalaises des collections du département d’Afrique subsaharienne du Musée de l’Homme », Journal des Africanistes, n°71-2, Société des Africanistes, Paris, p. 165-188.
2000 – « Contribution à l’étude des céramiques maliennes et des outils de potiers dans les collections africaines du Musée de l’Homme », Origini XXII, Bonsignori, Rome, p. 299-317.
2000 – « Rituels funéraires swahili : les sépultures islamiques du site de Gedi (Kenya) », Les Recherches sur le Monde Arabe en France, 1^er Colloque des Jeunes Arabisants, CEMAA-AMAM, Université de Toulouse, p. 167-193.
1999 – « L’influence indienne dans l’architecture swahili », Swahili Forum VI, AAP n°60, Institut für Afrikanistik, Université de Köln, p. 103-120.
1999 – « L’archéologie swahili et la collection Révoil au Musée de l’Homme (Paris) », Mvita n°8, Nairobi : Regional Centre for Archaeology National Museums of Kenya, p. 20-28.
1998 – « Enceintes urbaines swahili et forts omanais », Les Cahiers de l’IFRA, n°11, Nairobi : Institut Français de recherche en Afrique, p. 4-23.
1997 – « Céramique en pays sereer et tumulus sénégambiens », in Internet Archaeology, 3, University of York, 23p. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue3/pradines_index.html
1997 – « Le Sine et Saloum, region d’origine des tumulus sénégambiens » in Electronic Antiquity vol. 3 Issue 6, edited by Peter Toohey and Ian Worthington. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V3N6/pradines.html

Book Chapters Peer-Reviewed

2025- with Anita Nadeem, “The Mosques of the Maldives and Buddhist Indian Ocean Worlds”, Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World, Edited by Mark Fielding and Joshua Esler, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 221-256.
2025 – “Fatimid Archaeology and Excavations in Cairo: what we really know about the Ismaili Capital City and Fustat”, in Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics, and Religion, Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary, Shainool Jiwa, editors, I.B. Tauris – The Institute of Ismaili Studies, pp. 409-430.
2025 – « La route des épices : de la mer Rouge à l’Océan Indien », in Exhibition Catalogue Mamlouks 1250–1517, Carine Juvin Editor, Louvre/Skira, Paris, 174-181.
2025 – « L’Art retrouvé : l’Archéologie du sultanat », in Exhibition Catalogue Mamlouks 1250–1517, Carine Juvin Editor, Louvre/Skira, Paris, 234-237.
2025 – “Ivory and Rock Crystal Trade in East Africa, Eight to Twelfth Centuries”, Land and Trade in Early Islam. The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE. edited by Hugh Kennedy and Fanny Bessard, Cambridge, CUP, 392-423.
2024 – “Les mosquées de Nora.” In Nora, ville islamique de l’Éthiopie médiévale (fin du XIIIe-début du XVIe siècle) : les fouilles de 2008. Centre français des études éthiopiennes. https://doi.org/10.4000/12iyx.
2024 – with Topan, F., “Introduction to Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean” In Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean, ISMC-EUP, p. 1-17.
2024 – “Early Swahili Mosques: The Role of Ibadi and Ismaili Communities, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries” In Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean, ISMC-EUP, p. 215-245.
2024 – « Les échanges avec l’Afrique orientale » in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans, sous la direction de Sylvie Denoix et Hélène Renel, Paris, CNRS, 272-273.
2024 – « Les ouvrages défensifs au Caire » in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans,sous la direction de Sylvie Denoix et Hélène Renel, Paris, CNRS, 154-155.
2021 – “Swahili pre-modern warfare and violence in the Indian Ocean” in Ports and Trans-Ports Evolution and Revolution(s) in the Indian Ocean World, Proceedings of the Workshop GUtech March 4-6, 2019, Editors Michael Jansen Michaela Liehner-Jansen, Freunde des Reiff e.V. at RWTH Aachen University, pp. 249-275.
2020 – Coastal Fortifications in 9th Century Tunisia and Egypt” in Ports and Forts of the Muslims. Coastal Military Architecture, from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period, IFAO (French institute of Archaeology), Cairo, pp. 53-78.
2020 – “Warfare in the Indian Ocean: the walled cities of the Swahili” in Ports and Forts of the Muslims. Coastal Military Architecture, from the Arab Conquest to the Ottoman Period, IFAO (French institute of Archaeology), Cairo, pp. 173-200.
2020 – “Madagascar, the Source of the Abbasid and Fatimid Rock Crystals: New Evidence from Archaeological Investigations in East Africa”. Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals across the Medieval Mediterranean, Shalem, Avinoam & Hahn, Cynthia editors, Gebr. Mann, Berlin, pp. 35-50.
2019 – “Orientalism and Muslim arms and armour”. La collection d’armes orientales de Pierre Loti, Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Rochefort, Indes Savantes, pp. 40-50.
2019 – “La civilisation swahilie (VIIIe-XVe siècle) ” in Atlas historique de l’Afrique, François-Xavier Fauvelle and Isabelle Surun (eds.), Autrement, Paris, pp. 26-27.
2019 – « Maintien de la paix et protection du territoire : le réseau fortifié des Ottomans en Egypte », in Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval, x^e-xv^e siècles. Histoire, archéologie et anthropologie, M. Eychenne, S. Pradines and A. Zouache eds, IFAO / IFPO, Cairo, pp. 251-287.
2019 – « Du nouveau à l’ouest de l’océan Indien : le cristal de roche et l’ivoire swahilis », in Sur les Chemins d’Onagre, Histoire et archéologie orientales, Hommage à Monik Kervran, Hardy-Gilbert, Renel Rougeulle and Vallet Editors, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 153-167.
2019 – “Ethnicity and architecture. The Fatimid town walls in Cairo” in Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, BRILL, Leiden, pp. 104-145.
2019 – “Discovering the Fatimid Walls” in Cairo: renewing the Historic City, Jodidio, Philip, editor, Munich: Prestel, pp.112-125.
2019 – “On Fatimid Gardens. A Note on the Darrāsa Excavations” in The World of the Fatimids, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani Editor, Aga Khan Museum &IIS, Toronto, pp. 68-69.
2019 – « Dembéni : un site majeur pour la connaissance des réseaux commerciaux de l’océan indien médiéval » in Océan Indien, Mayotte. 40 années de recherches archéologiques, Drac-Inrap, Mamoudzou, pp. 34-35
2007 – « Bâb el-Tawfiq », in 25 ans de découvertes archéologiques sur les chantiers de l’Ifao. 1981-2006. Catalogue d’exposition au Musée égyptien, Le Caire, 9 septembre – 13 octobre 2007, Ifao : Le Caire, p. 22-27.
2004 – « Gedi : une cité médiévale swahili », In Archéologies. 20 ans de recherches françaises dans le monde, ERC- Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, p. 340-343.
2004 – with Marianne Barrucand, « La muraille de Saladin, Le Caire », In Archéologies. 20 ans de recherches françaises dans le monde, ERC- Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, p. 364 – 366.
2003 – L’Afrique noire et la Chine. La céramique importée : symbole du pouvoir des marchands swahili, in L’Odyssée de la porcelaine chinoise, RMN, Paris, p. 35-41.

Professional Society Publications and Published Reports

2021 – et alii, “Kua,Tanzania, excavation report 2018” in Nyame Akuma 93, June, University of Alberta, pp.36-45
2021 – « Dembéni (Mayotte). Dembéni Tsararano », Archéologie médiévale, 46, 177-178.
2022 – with Hélène Renel, Danael Veyssier et Bing Zhao, « Irone Be (Dembeni, Mayotte) Rapport de mission 2015 » in Nyame Akuma, 85, June, University of Alberta, p. 44-56.
2023 – with Gwénaël Herviaux, « Dembéni, un site urbain bipolaire ? Mayotte, rapport intermédiaire 2014 » in Nyame Akuma, n°83, University of Alberta, p. 128-141.
2024 – The Rock Crystal of Dembeni, Mayotte Mission report 2013, Nyame Akuma 80, SAFA, p. 59-72.
2025 – “The Fortifications of Cairo: The wall of Gawhar, Egypt, Mission Report 2012”, in Nyame Akuma, n°79, University of Alberta, p. 4-12.
2026 – with Pierre Brial, « Dembéni, Mayotte (976). Archéologie swahilie dans un département français » in Nyame Akuma 77, p. 68-81.
2006 – « Sanjé ya Kati, Kilwa, Tanzanie, 2005 – 2006 », Nyame Akuma, n°66, Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist, University of Alberta, p. 64-70.
2005 – Stéphane Pradines & Pierre Blanchard. Archéologie et préservation du patrimoine : le projet franco-tanzanien de Kilwa, 2002-2005, Nyame Akuma, n°63, Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist, University of Alberta, p. 20-26.
2002 – Architecture domestique swahili, les fouilles de Gedi : la mission de 2002, Nyame Akuma, n°58, Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist, University of Alberta, p. 13-18.
2003 – Islamization and Urbanization on the Coast of East Africa: recent excavations at Gedi, Kenya, Azania 38, BIEA, Nairobi, p. 180-182.
2001 – Une mosquée du XII^e siècle à Gede (Kenya, Mission de Juillet-Août 2001), Nyame Akuma, n°56, Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist, University of Alberta, p. 23-28.
2000 – Mission archéologique de Gedi, Kenya (juillet-août 1999), Archéologie islamique, n°10, Paris, p. 195-196.
2000 – Nouvelles recherches archéologiques sur le site de Gedi (Kenya, Mission de Juillet-Août 1999), Nyame Akuma, n°53, Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist, University of Alberta, p. 22-28.

Journal Editorials

2025 – “Homage to His Late Highness Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV (1936–2025)”, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW) Volume 6: Issue 1-2, Brill, Leiden, pp. 1-3.
2024 – “What is Islamic Archaeology Anyway? A Rightful Field or an Orientalist Mirage?”, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW) Volume 5: Issue 1-2, Brill, Leiden, pp. 1-10.
2022 – “Islamic Archaeology and Sustainable Development in the Global South” Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 3 (2022) 139–144

Popular Magazines

2025 – “Mayotte et le cristal de roche au temps des califes”, Archeologia 648, Faton, December, p.58-65
2020 – “Uncovering the history of East Africa’s Swahili Coast”, AKU Research 8, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Karachi, pp. 12-15.
2018 – “Redrawing the boundaries: excavating Cairo’s Islamic walls” in Egyptian Archaeology Journal n°52, Egypt Exploration Society, London, pp. 15-19.
2018 – « L’océan indien a brassé les idées et les peuples » (des Mythes à l’Histoire) in Le Monde- La vie L’Atlas de l’eau et des Océans, Hors-série 22, Chantal Cabé et Michel Lefebvre eds., Paris, November, pp. 44-45
2013 – ‘The Discovery of the First Fatimid City Wall’, Akhuwat online, Aga Khan University, issue n°89, Karachi.
2010 – « Saladin, le bâtisseur » in Histoire Antique & Médiévale hors-série n° 25, p. 50-57.
2010 – « A la découverte du Caire médiéval : Une métropole arabe hors norme » in Histoire et Images médiévales, n°35, p. 56-65.
2006 – Kilwa, la cité de l’or africain, Archéologia, 430, Faton, Dijon, p. 62-73.
2005 – Les murailles du Caire : des califes fatimides aux sultans mamelouks, Archéologia, 418, Faton, Dijon, p. 60-73.
2003 – La muraille de Saladin au Caire, L’Archéologue, n°64, Paris, p. 30-31.
2003 – Au cœur de l’islam médiéval, Gedi une cité swahili, Archéologia 396, Faton, Dijon, p. 28-39.

Book Reviews

2021 – Cristina Tonghini, ed. From Edessa to Urfa. The Fortification of the Citadel, Archaeopress, 2021, 259 p. in Syria (Cnrs Paris / Damascus):
2019 – Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette (eds), The Swahili World, Routledge Abingdon & New York, 2018, 671 p. in Antiquity, Vol. 96 – 367, pp. 271-273.
2018 – Foreword Persian Fire and Steel: Historical Firearms of Iran by Manouchehr Mostagh Khorasani, Niloufar books, Frankfurt, p. 9.
2018 – Wynne-Jones Stephanie, A Material Culture. Consumption and materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa, Oxford university press, 2016, 323 p. in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 5.1, 103–107.
2018 – Castles of North-west Greece: From the Early Byzantine Period to the Eve of the First World War, by Allan Brooks. Aetos Press, 2013. 332p., in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 5.1, 116–117.
2017 – Axelle Rougeulle ed., Sharma. Un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur la côte du Hadramawt (Yémen, ca. 980–1180) in Journal of Islamic Archaeology 4.2 267–271.
2016 – The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation and Landscape in Islamic Egypt, by John Cooper, American University in Cairo Press, 2014. 392 pp., 5 tables, 15 b/w photos, 68 b/w line drawings, 12 color line drawings. JIA 3.2, 261–264
2016 – Mantai. City by the Sea by John Carswell, Siran Deraniyagala and Alan Graham. Linden Soft Verlag, 2013. Hb., 552pp., 350 illustrations (tables, figures, and maps; colour/b&w), JIA 3.1, 145–149
2014 – Late Mamlûk Military Equipment, by Nicolle David, IFPO, Damas, 2011, 396 p., Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 135, p.
2013 – Sadr, une forteresse de Saladin au Sinaï, by Mouton Jean-Michel, Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, tome 43, Paris, 2010, dans BCAI 27, IFAO, p. 131-137.
2013 –Forteresses du Proche-Orient, l’architecture militaire des Ayyoubides, by Yovitchitch Cyril, PUPS, Paris-Sorbonne, 2011, dans le BCAI 27, IFAO, p. 141-143.
2000 –Secrets du continent noir révélés par l’archéologie, by Marianne Cornevin, Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1998, 321p. in Journal des Africanistes, n°70, Société des Africanistes, Paris, p. 393-395.

Unpublished Reports

31 January 2024 : Stephane Pradines, Olivier Onezime and Hélène Renel, Lahore Fort, Akbari gate, Mission November 2023, ISMC-AKU Archaeological Report, 32p.

Works Submitted for Publication and Forthcoming

2026 – “Swahili domestic architecture, between warehouses and palaces” In Islamic Archaeology Inhabited space in the Dār al-Islām, Edited by Alastair Northedge, Apolline Vernet, Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon, MCMW.
2026 – “Byzantine, Armenian, Kurdish, or Islamic? Fatimid gates and Ayyubid towers in Cairo, 1087-1171 AD”, International Conference on Byzantine, Western and Post-Byzantine Towers (10th-16th centuries), Paschalis Androudis ed., University of Thessaloniki, 337-361.
2026 – “Ayyubid fortifications of Egypt: An Archaeological Gazetteer”, Warfare and Fortifications during the Age of the Crusades, Michael S. Fulton and H. E. Crowley editors, Crusades Subsidia series, Routledge, publication in October.

Reviewer

Review of the article “Onto the Straight Path: Reflections on the Shift in Qiblah Direction at the Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou” for Speculum A Journal of Medieval Studies. The journal of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Chicago Press. 2024.
Review of the article “The shallow dome on pendentives in Bab al-Futuh, Cairo” for the Journal Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, Brill, Leiden. 2024.
Review of the article “The meeting ground: urban mosques in the Horn of Africa during the medieval period” for the journal Remmm, Aix-en-Provence, 2022
Review of the article “The main gates of Fatimid Cairo” for the Journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Warsow, 2022
Review of the article “Belvoir Castle, excavation reveals a pre-Castle settlement” for the journal Medievalista, Instituto de estudos medieval, Nova university Lisbon, 2022
Review of the article “The reimagined Johannesburg Mosque architecture”, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, New York, 2022
Member of the Advisory Committee of Lusail Museum, Qatar Museums, Doha (28 October 2022)
Member of the committee ERC Consolidator Grant 2022, Afropolis Tungul. Urban biography of a cosmopolitan African capital. Old Dongola, Sudan. PI: Artur Obłuski, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw
Reviewer for the Journal of African Archaeology (JAA-1057), “An Early Islamic Rock Crystal Amulet Seal from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar” (2021)
Reviewer for the British Museum grants, EMKP Grant Application 2021 by Michael Mallinson and his project “Restoring the Baggara Knights”, a site museum in Sudan.
Book review editor for the Journal of Islamic Archaeology (2015-2020)
Journal Archaeological Research in Asia. Review of “Asia in the Horn: The Indian Ocean Trade in Somaliland”
Manuscript Number: ARA_2020_111 (2020)
AGORA CAUMME Mediterranean: Between Expansion and Regeneration. The German University in Cairo, November 25-27, 2020.
Review of “Towards a national charter for conservation in Egypt”. Manuscript ID: AG_CA-20-0097 (2020)
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales “We Came from…. (Somewhere Else)”. Migration and Identity on the Coast of East Africa, Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), Rédaction des Annales HSS (bureau 70) (2020)
MAVCOR Journal, Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University, « The Transcontinental Genealogy of the Afro-Brazilian Mosque » (2020)
Article reviewer for the Journal of Islamic Archaeology: “Hājj Routes from Egypt to the Hijaz through the Eastern Desert and the Port Town of ‘Aydhāb from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Centuries”, 2018.
Article reviewer for the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, “Contextualizing Early 6^th/12^th Century Fatimid Military Structure”, Ref.: Ms. No. 11015, 2018.
Article evaluated as anonymous reviewer: Reviewer for the Journal of Archaeological Science. Ref: JASREP_2018_707, Title: Residue analysis of sphero-conical vessels from Jerusalem

Enseignement

Summer Schools & Directed Archaeological Field Schools

2022: Co-Founder and Co-Organiser, with Professor Jorge Santos Alves, of the Asian Studies & Indian Ocean Summer School, organised by Universidade Católica (Lisbon) and Aga Khan University ISMC (London), 5–8 September 2022
2019: Undergraduate curriculum and course development; designer of a new course, Worlds of the Greater Indian Ocean (core curriculum), for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, AKU, Karachi, for ISMC FAS research and teaching
2007 – 2016: Founder of the first field school in Islamic archaeology in Egypt, in partnership with Cairo University, Ain Shams University, and the Ministry of Egyptian Antiquities. It was the largest field school in the discipline created in the Middle East, with nearly 100 trainees over 10 years
2003 – 2005: Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, Cairo University
1995: Session on “Statistics in Archaeology” in the course Methods in Archaeology, Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Short Courses

2022: Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa, AKU-ISMC, King’s Cross, London
2021: Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa, AKU-ISMC, King’s Cross, London
2021 – “The Mosque and the Sword. Islamic Art and Architecture in sub-Saharan Africa”, V&A: Arts of the Islamic World Course, Spotlight Session
2021: Warfare in Muslim Material Cultures, AKU-ISMC & Royal Armouries Museum
2020: Warfare in Muslim Material Culture, AKU-ISMC & Royal Armouries Museum
2017: Bonn University webinar course titled Engineering and Technology of Warfare, for the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg Fall School in Science and Technology in the Islamic Middle Periods
2015: Muslim Architectures in Cairo, from Madina to Metropolis
Course for the Summer Programme, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, UK
The Rock Crystal of the Zanj, from Madagascar to Baghdad & Cairo
Course for the Summer Programme, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, UK
2014: Fatimid and Ayyubid Military Architecture in Egypt
Short course for the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Islamic Mediterranean: 1000–1500. North Africa, Egypt and Syria under the Fatimids, London, UK
2013: Defending Muslim Empires: Castles and Citadels
Short course for the Summer Programme, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, UK

Museum-Based Teaching

Victoria and Albert Museum, Islamic and Indian Art Galleries; Ceramics and Glass Collections, London
Ashmolean Museum, object handling session, Oxford
Leighton House, 19th-century Orientalist mansion, London
Mosaic Rooms, contemporary Arab art gallery, London
Louvre Museum, Islamic Art Gallery, Paris
Institute of the Arab World (IMA), Paris
Great Mosque of Paris, Paris