Ali Othman

PhD in Archaeology, Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I University. Archaeologist and heritage curator, formerly civil servant in the Service of Excavations at the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria (Damascus). Holder of a diploma from the National Institute for Cultural Heritage (Institut national du patrimoine, INP) in France, department of curators, speciality: archaeology. Associate researcher at the IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient) since 2014, in the department of Archaeology and History of Antiquity. Consulting Scholar at the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (University of Pennsylvania) since February 2015. The research focuses on the Late Antiquity in the Middle Euphrates valley (Syria). In 2013-2014: research assistant at the Louvre Museum, department of Near Eastern Antiquities. From 2003 to 2012: director of the Syrian archaeological mission at the site of Sura in north-eastern Syria. From 2003 to 2004: director of the Syrian archaeological mission at the site of Hosn Suleiman in coastal Syria. Participation in several national and international archaeological missions. Since 2019, participation in various French archaeological missions abroad (Larsa and Oueili in Southern Iraq, Qara Dagh - Girdi Qala and Logardan - and Amyan in Iraqi Kurdistan, al-Qusur-Faïlaka in Kuwait, Al-Ula - ArcAgr-AU project and "Al-Ula Oasis Cultural Project" - and Dadan in Saudi Arabia). June 2011: founder of the team « Le Patrimoine Archéologique Syrien en Danger » (PASD), a collective that aims to monitor and document the Syrian heritage in times of conflict. Member of the project SHOSI (Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq). Contributor to the development of the Emergency Red List of Syrian cultural objects at risk, created by ICOM (International Council of Museums). Expert for the UNESCO in “Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage Project – Roster of Experts and Information Sharing Network”.