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Khaled Nashef

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Khaled Nashef
خالد ناشف
Born(1942-01-13)January 13, 1942
Tulkarm, Palestine
DiedFebruary 11, 2009(2009-02-11) (aged 67)
Amman, Jordan
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, historian
Years active1978–2009
Known forContributions to Near Eastern archaeology, Tübingen Atlas project

Khaled Nashef (Arabic: خالد ناشف, DMG: Ḫālid Nāšif; 13 January 1942[1] – 11 February 2009) was a Palestinian archaeologist and historian who made contributions to the fields of Near Eastern archaeology and Palestinian cultural heritage preservation.

Early life and education

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Nashef was born on 13 January 1942 in Tulkarem, Palestine. He received his early education at Al-Fadiliya School. He went on to study at the University of Vienna and earned a doctorate degree in history in 1976, specializing in Akkadian and Sumerian languages.[2][3]

Career

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From 1978 to 1987, Nashef worked at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he contributed to the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO) after which he worked at the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.[1] In 1994, he started teaching at Birzeit University in Palestine,[4] where he served as the Director of the Palestinian Institute of Archaeology. In this role, he conducted significant research on Palestinian archaeological heritage and supervised excavations, including work at Khirbet Birzeit in 2000.[5] He also established the peer-reviewed Journal of Palestinian Archaeology.[6]

Death

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He was exiled from Palestine by the Israeli occupation in 1998[4] following the Oslo Accords, where he continued his research until his death on 11 February 2009 in Amman, Jordan.[3]

Research and publications

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Nashef specialized in Ancient Near Eastern studies and Near Eastern archaeology. He published numerous scholarly works in both German and Arabic. His research interests included geographical studies of ancient Mesopotamia. His publications include:

  • Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der mittelbabylonischen und mittelassyrischen Zeit (1982),[7][8] a geographical lexicon of place names in Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian texts;
  • Babylonien und Assyrien in der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. (1983),[9] on Babylon and Assyria in the second half of the second millennium BCE;
  • Rekonstruktion der Reiserouten zur Zeit der altassyrischen Handelsniederlassungen (1987),[10] a reconstruction of travel routes during the Old Assyrian trading colony period;
  • Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der altassyrischen Zeit (1991),[11] on place and water names in the Old Assyrian period;
  • تدمير التراث الحضاري العراقي، فصول الكارثة The Destruction of Iraq's Cultural Heritage: Chapters of the Catastrophe.[12]
  • "Deites of Dilmun" in "Bahrain through the ages";[13]
  • Répertoire géographique des textes eunéiformes[14]

Nashef also made significant contributions to Palestinian cultural studies, particularly through his work on documenting and preserving Palestinian heritage. He wrote extensively about Taufiq Canaan,[15] a pioneering Palestinian ethnographer and physician, publishing articles such as "Tawfik Canaan: His Life and Works" in the Jerusalem Quarterly in 2002.[16] He also translated and studied Canaan's collection of Palestinian amulets, contributing to the preservation of this aspect of Palestinian cultural heritage.

Another area of his research was the medieval sugar industry in the region.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b Nāšif. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  2. ^ "Khaled Nashef". Faces Of Palestine. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  3. ^ a b "Khaled Al-Nashif". All 4 Palestine. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  4. ^ a b "وما ذنب الآثار: أول كتاب وثائقى يرصد خسائر الحضارة العراقية". elaph.com. 2020-06-28. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  5. ^ Nashef K, Abd Rabu O. Khirbet Birzeit Research and Excavation Project 1998: Second Season of Excavation. Journal of Palestine Archaeology. 2000 Jan;1(1):4-12.
  6. ^ Al-Houdalieh, Salah Hussein A. (2009). "Archaeology Programs at the Palestinian Universities: Reality and Challenges". Archaeologies. 5 (1): 166. doi:10.1007/s11759-009-9097-9.
  7. ^ Nashef, Khaled (1982). "Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der mittelbabylonischen und mittelassyrischen Zeit". Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes. 5 – via The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.
  8. ^ Postgate, J. N. (1985). "Review of Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der mittelbabylonischen und mittelassyrischen Zeit. XXVIII. (= Repertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes, Band 5, Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Reihe B (Geisteswissenschaften), Nr. 7/5)". Archiv für Orientforschung. 32: 95–101. ISSN 0066-6440. JSTOR 41662056.
  9. ^ Nāšif, Hālid; Sauer, Margit (1983), Babylonien und Assyrien in der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr: = Babylonia and Assyria in the Second Half of the Second Millennium B.C (Entwurf abgeschl. 1982; ersch. 1983 ed.), Wiesbaden: Reichert, ISBN 978-3-88226-674-0
  10. ^ Nāšif, Ḫālid; Nashef, Khaled (1987). Rekonstruktion der Reiserouten zur Zeit der altassyrischen Handelsniederlassungen. Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B, Geisteswissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 978-3-88226-423-4.
  11. ^ Nāšif, Ḫālid, ed. (1991), Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. 4: Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der altassyrischen Zeit / von Khaled Nashef, Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B, Geisteswissenschaften, Wiesbaden: Reichert, ISBN 978-3-88226-465-4
  12. ^ خالد, ناشف، (2004). تدمير التراث الحضاري العراقي، فصول الكارثة (in Arabic). دار الحمرا.
  13. ^ Khalifa, Haya Ali; Rice, Michael; Bahrain, eds. (1986). Bahrain through the ages: the archaeology. London ; New York : New York, NY: KPI ; Distributed by Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0112-3.
  14. ^ Geller, M. J. (1984). "Khaled Nashef: Répertoire géographique des textes eunéiformes. Bd. v: Die Ors-und Gewässernamen der mittelbabylonischen und mittelassyrischen Zeit. (beihefte Zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Reihe B (Geisteswissenschaften). NR. 7/5.) xxviii, 341pp., map. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert veriag, 1982". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 47 (3): 549–550. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00113758. ISSN 0041-977X.
  15. ^ Tamari V. Tawfik Canaan–Collectionneur par excellence: The Story Behind the Palestinian Amulet Collection at Birzeit University. Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World. 2016 May 23:71-90.
  16. ^ K, Nashef (2002). Tawfiq Canaan: His life and works. Jerusalem Quarterly. (published Nov 2002).
  17. ^ "Staff View: Nāšif, Hālid 1942-2009 :: IxTheo". ixtheo.de. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
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