Dr. Amine-Jules Iskandar is one of FedLeb.org's principal and most frequent contributors. An architect trained at the Versailles School of Architecture, a historian, painter and writer, he teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture of the Lebanese University and runs his own architecture practice in Beirut. He is the founder and President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon, launched in 2017 to revive the Syriac language and Syriac-Maronite identity as a foundation for the self-determination of Lebanon, and specifically Mount Lebanon. His research links Lebanese architecture, liturgy and cultural memory to their Syriac origins, and he has published extensively, including in L'Orient-Le Jour, on language, identity and federalism in Lebanon.
