• Co-author of Peacebuilding project proposals

• Co-developer of work methodologies

• Applied research coordinator

• Co-designer of policies in the MENA region.

• Secured funding from various international donors, including EU-funded projects, Italian Cooperation, and GIZ.

Developed a participatory and inclusive methodology to promote community engagement in social enterprise as a driver for social cohesion in Lebanon. This methodology also offers tools for an evaluation process that assesses impact beyond the enterprise’s goals, extending to the community or system.

Developed a comprehensive and multidisciplinary methodology for conducting Heritage Impact Assessment in the Al Ula Tram Project. This methodology incorporates Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and is founded on the triangulation of various methods to ensure effective heritage protection within the framework of sustainable development policies.

Crafting a methodology to actively involve rural communities in safeguarding heritage - “Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (LoNAP) - within conflict areas, integrating the approach seamlessly into rural sustainable development initiatives.

• Explanatory presentation of the pre-conflict Syria cultural heritage context.

• Lectures and presentations of the post-2011 Syria cultural heritage context.

• Talks and presentations on conflict, culture and religion in the Euro-Mediterranean contexts.

• Integration of students schooled in Arabic in Italian primary and secondary schools. 

• Intercultural activities in public libraries in North-Eastern Italy.

• Excavation with the objective of obtaining a better understanding of Mishrifeh settlement and its role in the historical and political scenario of central-western Syria during the 9 th and 8 th centuries BC.

• Archaeological Surveyor and Topographer and CAD expert: in the Palmyra oasis with the aim of reconstructing the patterns of occupation and land-use from prehistoric times until the present day and studying the relationship between human settlement dynamics, changes in climate and the ancient natural environment.

• Developed and implemented Montessori curricula for classrooms of up to 16 multinational children.

• Created assessments to evaluate children's progress and development.

• Presenting own research ‘Rural Cultural Heritage between roots of crisis & peace building, Syrian Ghab Plain as a case study at “The World in Florence,” an international festival about the diversity of the world’s cultural expressions, organized by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation in Florence, Italy, from 15 to 18 November 2022. 

• Panelist at the Climate. Culture. Peace Conference, a project of the FAR - First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis Program, a flagship capacity development program of ICCROM.

• Presenting the methodology of Applying Community Capital Framework to Women Inclusion at the WISE Women Inclusion through Social Enterprise, EU Training Mobility for Adult Educators. 

• Webinar speaker in Re-Contextualizing Contested Heritage, Beirut Arab University BAU. May 2020.

• Workshop speaker in Urban Recovery Platform, Beirut Urban Lab, American University of Beirut AUB.    January 2020.

• Visiting researcher and facilitator in Heritage Management in the Middle East at the University of Udine, Italy. December 2019.

• Panelist at the 2019 City Debates conference on “Urban Recovery”. Organized by the American University of Beirut AUB. April 2019.

• Participated in close discussion “Post-Conflict Recovery of Urban Cultural Heritage” organized by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) October 2018 in Berlin and June 2018 in Beirut.

• Panelist at the Third Conference on National Dialogues on “Local dialogue in the absence of National Dialogue in MENA”. Helsinki 2017.

• Conference speaker in the College Art Association CAA 2017 panel on “Syria Now: Architectural, Artistic, and Cultural Heritage in Peril”. New York 2017.

• Participated in a seminar on “Safeguarding Syria’s Cultural and Archaeological Heritage”; which was organized by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy and UNESCO, Rome 2014.

• Networks and memberships Association of Critical Heritage Studies.  Link >
  Member in a network of scholars and researchers working in the broad and interdisciplinary field of critical heritage. 

• Diaspora Network Alliance DNA.  Link >
  Board Member. Supporting Syrian national’s integration in EU countries involving pre-2011 Syrian and other nationalities diaspora communities in Europe. 

• Ziedan, E. (2024) “The role of heritage in understanding community-scale water diplomacy: a case study of the Al-Ghab Plain in Syria” in Islam. S, Smith, K, Klimes, M and Salsberg, A (eds), Routledge “Water Diplomacy Handbook”, Routledge.  Link >

• Ziedan, E. (2021) “Souls of Homes: Heritage as a Manifestation of Community Relationships Through Space and Time” in Al Harithy, H (ed), “Urban Recovery, Intersecting displacement with post war reconstruction”, Routledge.  Link >

• Interview on “The EU Strategy for Syria: Syrians’ Take” published in Syrian Echoes 2017.

• Ziedan, E. (2016) “Fragmentation of Heritage, Fragmentation of Identity” in Calculli, M (ed), “Syrian Exile”, Guerini Editore (text in Italian).

• Ziedan, E, (2016) “Syrian Civil Society: Healing the Fracture between Heritage and Identity” Syria Untold.  Link >

• Ziedan, E. (2013) “Desert-kite in the mountains of Palmyra” in S. Magnani (ed), Le aree montane come frontiere. Spazi d’interazione e connettività, Aracne Editrice (text in Italian).  Link >