Charbel Nassif holds doctorates in Art History (Sorbonne University) and Theology (Catholic University of Paris). He is Research Director at CEDRAC, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. His doctoral dissertation in Art History focused on Yūsuf al-Muṣawwir, a Melkite painter and the founder of an artistic lineage that continued until the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as the founder of the Aleppo School, al-Muṣawwir left a significant iconographic legacy. Many of the icons he painted are now part of the Abou Adal Collection. Nassif’s research explores the liturgical and artistic heritage of the Melkite Church. His publications include: “Les sculptures de l’iconostase de l’église Saint-Nicolas à Khenchara,” Tempora 22 (2013–2017): 89–126; “Ottoman and Arab Influences on Melkite Art in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries,” in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 12, ed. David Thomas (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 15–28; “Cinquante ans d’études sur l’art melkite (1969–2019). Essai d’historiographie,” in Arab Christians between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe, ed. Ioana Feodorov et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 299–336; and Kitāb ṣalāt al-sawāʿī (1514): The First Arabic Printed Book in the World, facsimile edition with an introduction (Raboueh: Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate, 2024).