Khaled Asaad

Khaled al-Asaad
خالد الأسعد
Born
Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad

(1932-01-01)1 January 1932[1]
Palmyra, First Syrian Republic[2]
Died18 August 2015(2015-08-18) (aged 83)
Palmyra, Ba'athist Syria
Cause of deathDecapitation
Alma materDamascus University
OccupationArchaeologist
TitleHead of antiquities in Palmyra
Honours

Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad (Arabic: خالد الأسعد, January 1932 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist. He was the head of antiquities in the city of Palmyra for more than forty years.[6] In May 2015, Palmyra came under the control of the terrorist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and Asaad was amongst those captured during this time. He was executed on 18 August 2015.[7][8][9][10][11]

Honours and medals

Syrian honors

  • Order of Civil Merit (2015) - Awarded posthumously[12]

Foreign honors

  • Poland – Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1998)[13]
  • Italy – On 17 October 2015, the President of Italy inaugurated the rehabilitated Arsenali della Repubblica in Pisa which was renamed after al-Asaad.[14]

Film

  • A 2019 film titled Dam al Nakhl (Blood of the Palm Trees) portrays al-Asaad's brave resistance against the Islamic State.[15]

Selected publications

  • Asaad, Khaled (1980). Nouvelles découvertes archéologiques en Syrie [New archaeological discoveries in Syria] (in French). Damascus: Direction générale des antiquités et des musées. OCLC 602249622.; 2nd edition 1990.
  • Asaad, Khaled; Bounni, Adnan (1984). Palmyra. Geschichte, Denkmäler, Museum (in German). Damascus: Direction générale des antiquités et des musées.
  • Gawlikowski, Michael; Asaad, Khaled (1995). Palmyra and the Aramaeans. ARAM periodical. Vol. 7. Oxford: The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. OCLC 68075497.
  • Asaad, Khaled (1995). "Restoration Work at Palmyra". ARAM Periodical. 7 (1): 9–17. doi:10.2143/ARAM.7.1.2002213. OCLC 4632456923.
  • Asaad, Khaled; Yon, Jean-Baptiste (2001), Inscriptions de Palmyre. Promenades épigraphiques dans la ville antique de Palmyre (= Guides archéologiques de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient Bd. 3). Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient, Beirut 2001; ISBN 2-912738-12-1.
  • Asaad, Khaled; Schmidt-Colinet, Andreas (eds) (2013), Palmyras Reichtum durch weltweiten Handel. Archäologische Untersuchungen im Bereich der hellenistischen Stadt. 2 vols. Holzhausen, Vienna 2013; ISBN 978-3-902868-63-3, ISBN 978-3-902868-64-0.

References

  1. ↑ Hubbard, Ben (19 August 2015). "Syrian Expert Who Shielded Palmyra Antiquities Meets a Grisly Death at ISIS' Hands". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Profile: Khaled al-Asaad". BBC News. 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  3. ↑ "President Al-Assad Grants Archeologist Khaled al-Asaa'd Syrian Order of Merit of Excellent Degree". syriatimes.sy. 2015-09-03. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The martyr of Palmyra Khaled Al Asaad (PDF). International Council on Monuments and Sites. 2016. p. 13.
  5. ↑ "داعش يذبح أهم شخصية للآن ويعلقه على عمود بالطريق - منوعات". Archived from the original on 2015-10-03. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  6. ↑ "Syrian archaeologist 'killed in Palmyra' by IS militants". BBC News. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Islamic State militants behead archaeologist in Palmyra - Syrian official Archived 2015-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Aug 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ IS tötet früheren Chef-Archäologen von Palmyra, tagesschau.de, Aug 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Islamic State beheads Syrian antiquities scholar in ancient town of Palmyra".
  10. ↑ "Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities".
  11. ↑ Hubbard, Ben (2015-08-19). "ISIS Beheads Syrian Antiquities Scholar in Palmyra". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  12. ↑ "Legislative decree on granting archeologist Khaled al-Asaad Syrian Order of Merit of excellent degree". Syrian Arab News Agency. sana.sy. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "داعش يذبح أهم شخصية للآن ويعلقه على عمود بالطريق – منوعات" (in Arabic). akhbrksa.com. 19 August 2015. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  14. ↑ "Mattarella all'inaugurazione degli Arsenali "Pisa importante per il Paese"" [Mattarella at the inauguration of the Arsenals "Pisa important for the country"] (in Italian). Pisatoday. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Anzour puts final touches to his film "The Blood of Palm"". Sana. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

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