Chair of Near Eastern Archeology
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Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

Education

  • 2004-2009 University of Al-Qadisiyah, BA
  • 2010-2013 University of Baghdad, MA
  • since April 2022 researcher at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology: KALAM-Project.
  • since June 2025 researcher at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology: Academy-Project "KIŠIB".

Working Experience

  • 2011-2022 Academic staff member at SBAH, Baghdad
  • seit April 2022 Academic staff member at at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology: KALAM project

Archaeological Field Work

  • 2005 / 2007: Excavation at City of Marad (Tell As–Sudum) second and third season (as Trainee Student)
  • 2009: Thereb Fortress Preservation Project, third season
  • 2010: Tell Al_Ajaz Excavation, third season
  • 2011: Tell Delmaj and Tell Abu–Elaimah Excavation, first season
  • 2015: Uruk survey project. German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
  • 2016-1: Uruk project survey and excavation. German Archaeological Institute (DAI).
  • 2016: Survey project of settlement overlooking Me-Enlil & Arraḫtum canals/ North-East Diwaniya.
  • 2016-2: Uruk project survey and excavation. German Archaeological Institute (DAI).
  • 2017: Survey project of settlement overlooking Me-Enlil & Arraḫtum canals/ North-East Diwaniya.
  • 2017-1: Uruk project. German Archaeological Institute (DAI).
  • 2017: Iraqi-Italian QADIS survey project / South-East Diwaniya, University of Bologna, autumn, 4th season.
  • 2017: Survey project of settlement overlooking Me-Enlil & Arraḫtum canals/ North-East Diwaniya, winter.
  • 2018: Iraqi-Italian QADIS Survey Project / South-East Diwaniya, Uni. of Bologna, Winter. 5th season.
  • 2018: Fara Regional Survey Project (FARSUP)/ South-East Diwaniya, LMU München, spring.
  • 2018: Iraqi-Italian QADIS Project of survey/ South-East Diwaniya, University of Bologna, autumn, 6th season.
  • 2022: FARA excavation project. Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, LMU München.
  • April 2022 - Dec. 2025: KALAM Survey Project in the area between Šuruppag (Fara) and Isin (Ishan Bahrīyat)

Presentations at Conferences

  • 2015: "Tablet from Old Babylonian Version of Code of Hammurapi" in conference proceeding "Remarkable upon the Last Discoveries in Cuneiform Studies" in College of Archaeology–Al_Qadisiyah University.
  • 2016: "The City of Namaru, New Textual Evidence" in conference proceeding "The Cities in the Cuneiform Sources" in Dep. of Cuneiform Studies, College of Archaeology, Al_Qadisiyah University.
  • 2018: "A Brief History of Pî-kasî (Tell Abu ʼIntik) New Remarks and Viewpoint" in proceeding of International Conference "On the Enhancement of the Archaeological Heritage in Iraq". Uni. of Kufa.
  • 2019: "Celebration of the Moon. A comparative perspective with the current heritage in Mesopotamia" in proceeding of international conference for college of Heritage and Archaeology-university of Kufa, Kufa.
  • 2019: "Exchange Document. With Overview for the En-Priests Installation by Means of Omen in the Third Millennium B.C Mesopotamia" in proceeding of 2nd ICRPAHI International Conference on Research and Protection the Archaeological Heritage in Iraq. University of Kufa, Kufa.
  • 2019: "Archaeological Heritage in Iraq, Reality and Challenges" in proceeding of 24th Conference on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World. Sousse-Tunisia.
  • 2022. “KALAM: The Preliminary Collected Data of Survey 2022”. Within Altorientalisches Kolloquium 2022 München.
  • 2022. “At the Middle of the Second Millennium: The Environment and Excavations at Ishan Al-Hazem” with the Ur 1922–2022 Centenary Colloquium. Held online by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq.
  • 2024. “The KALAM Project: The Preliminary results of the 2023-24 Survey between Šuruppag and Isin”. Colloquium on the Ancient Near East, Munich.
  • 2024. “Rescuing the archaeological landscapes in Qadisiyah Province (Iraq), training and awareness raising”. In the Global Issues Convention, Hanover.
  • 2024. “From the Uruk Period to the Sassanian Period in Southern Mesopotamia: A Brief Overview of the Results of the KALAM Project”. Gemeinsam mit Studierenden und Dozenten des Instituts für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der LMU. Colloquium on the Ancient Near East, Munich.
  • 2025. “KALAM Project: Reconstructing the Old Babylonian landscape and documenting the risk of the archaeological heritage between Šuruppak and Isin (Iraq)” in the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Lyon.

Research Foci

Economic and social history of the Old Babylonian Epoch, the Ancient Near East, Southern Mesopotamia