Leena Ghannam is an art historian, artist, and writer whose work focuses on artistic encounters in the Middle East and North Africa, medieval images and perception, spoliation, museum repatriation, and archeology of urban spaces. In 2025, they graduated from the American University in Cairo with a master’s in Islamic Art and Architecture. They are the Caption Coordinator and Newsletter Editor at the open-access project “Khamseen Islamic Art History Online” at the University of Michigan. Leena has worked as an assistant curator and researcher in collaboration with several institutions and SWANA cultural projects, including the Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi Arabia (2025), Google Arts and Culture, the Barakat Trust, Megawra (The Built Environment Collective), the Nadim Foundation, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Wayne State University Art Collection. She was also employed as a long-term research assistant for the “Tracing Purple Porphyry” project under the direction of Dr. Linda Gosner.