Zeidoun al-Muheisen

Dharih (Jordan) : the sanctuary in the Roman period and in the 6th-8th centuries AD. Excavated by François Villeneuve & Zeidoun al-Muheisen, 1984-2013

Zeidoun al-Muheisen is a Jordanian scholar, born in 1954. He graduated from the University of Jordan and University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, where he got his Ph.D. (1986), Techniques hydrauliques dans le sud de la Jordanie, particulièrement à l'époque nabatéenne (revised version published in Amman, 2007: The Technology of the Nabataean Water Distribution). He was an inspector of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (1984-1987), then a professor of Classical Archaeology at Yarmouk University (assistant pr., 1987-91, associate pr., 1992-96, full professor, 1996-2024 ; now emeritus) and a  visiting Prof. at Freie Univ. Berlin (1995-96), Tayyibeh University in Saudi Arabia (2010-2012) and Andrews Univ. (2016-2017). He served as Director General of the Petra Regional Authority (1999-2001) and as Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology & Anthropology, Yarmouk University (1997-99, 2007-10). As a specialist of the Southern Levant in the Nabataean and Roman periods, particularly interested in the archaeology of water and agriculture, he directed several projects in Jordan: Dharih (1987-2013), Yasileh (1988-2012), Hayyan al-Mushrif (1996-1998), al-Baddiyeh (1999-2003).