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Khaled Darwish Abdel-Qader Al-Nashif
(January 13, 1942 - February 9, 2009) was a prominent Arab archaeologist and
historian. He was born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm. He is a professor
specializing in the history of the ancient Near East. The Israeli authorities
deported him outside Palestine after the Oslo Accords.
His upbringing and education
Khaled Darwish Abd al-Qader
al-Nashif was born in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank on January 13, 1942.
He received his primary education in the schools of his city, Tulkarm, and
moved with his family between several Arab and foreign countries, including
Syria. He obtained a Ph. Akkadian and Sumerian ».
his working life
Khaled Al-Nashif worked as a
lecturer at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 1978 until 1987, and
then at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
He contributed to the preparation of
the famous "Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East" in Germany (Tübinger
Atlas des Vorderen Orients), which is the most important and largest atlas
prepared in Germany.
He later returned to his homeland,
Palestine, and worked as a lecturer at Birzeit University in the West Bank. He
also assumed the position of director of the Palestinian Institute of
Antiquities in 1994, and continued to do so until he was deported by the
Israeli authorities in 1998 outside Palestine, specifically to Jordan, where he
remained until his death there in 1998. 2009.
The scholar Khaled Al-Nashif had
also contributed to the publication of a number of his studies in the Institute
for Palestine Studies through the “Journal of Palestinian Studies”, “Jerusalem
Annals” and “Jerusalem Quarterly Magazine”.
His most prominent works
Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der
mittelbabylonischen und mittelassyrischen Zeit, in German, (The Places and
Names of Water in the Middle Babylonian-Assyrian Period), 1982, ISBN
3-88226-152-8, Germany.
"Babylonien und Assyrien in der
zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr" in German, (Babylon and
Assyria in the second half of the second millennium BC), 1983, ISBN
3-88226-674-0, Germany.
Rekonstruktion der Reiserouten zur
Zeit der altassyrischen Handelsniederlassungen in German (Reconstruction of the
Itinerary of the Ancient Assyrian Trade Colony), 1987, ISBN 3-88226-423-3,
Germany.
Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der
altassyrischen Zeit in German (Places and Names of Water in the Ancient
Assyrian Period), 1991, ISBN 3-88226-465-9, Germany.
The book “Palestinian Antiquities”,
Volume (1), in 2000, which is the first specialized archaeological journal in
Arabic.
The book “Palestinian Antiquities”,
Volume (2), 2001.
The book “The Destruction of the
Iraqi Cultural Heritage”, 2004, Al-Hamra Publishing House, Beirut.
The book “The Zionist Penetration
into Iraq”, 2005, Damascus.
The book “Israel and Zionism on the
Internet”, 2006.
"Deities of Dilmun in Bahrain
Through the Ages", 1986, ISBN 9780710301123.
Tawfiq Kanaan: A New Calendar,
Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002.
his death
Khaled Al-Nashif passed away on
Monday, February 9, 2009, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, at the age of 67,
due to an incurable disease. Several Palestinian authorities had called him.
They said about him
The historical and academic
researcher, Dr. Omar Al-Ghoul, who is one of Khaled Al-Nashif’s students at the
University of Tübingen in Germany, says: “I took from Khaled Al-Nashif his
extreme caution in science, and I still talk to him today, despite his absence,
about much of what I write or do.”
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