Dr. Yousef Asfour
Head of Secondary
PhD Education Leadership, Cambridge. Former IB examiner. 19 years in senior school leadership.
The Secondary Team
Subject experts who never stopped being students.
Our Secondary faculty hold advanced degrees in the disciplines they teach. They publish, they consult, and they bring that work back into the classroom.
Leadership
Head of Secondary & senior team
Maya Sharif
Director of University Counselling
Former admissions officer, Yale-NUS. Placed graduates in 14 countries since 2018.
Karim Antoun
Director of Studies (IB & A-Level)
MA Mathematics Education, UCL. Oversees academic standards across Grades 9–12.
Department heads
Who leads each subject.
English & Literature
Dr. Salma Issa · PhD Comp. Literature, Oxford
Mathematics
Dr. Adel Najjar · PhD Pure Maths, Princeton
Arabic Studies
Prof. Lina Habash · MA Classical Arabic
Sciences
Dr. Tarek Mughrabi · PhD Physics, Imperial
Humanities
Nour Khoury · MA History, SOAS London
Arts & Design
Layla Sahawneh · MFA Visual Art, RCA
Meet a department head.
Prospective families can request a private 30-minute conversation with any department lead.