Bassel Khartabil

Bassel's 45th birthday — unreleased archives essay published

Bassel's 44th birthday fictional remembrance published

Bassel's 43rd birthday memorial published

Bassel's 42nd birthday memorial published

Bassel's 41st birthday memorial published

#NEWPALMYRA panel at Creative Commons Summit

Jamil Khartabil passes away

Bassel's father, Palestinian scholar and writer, dies in Damascus

People: Jamil Khartabil (subject)

Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Tarek Loubani and Glia

People: Tarek Loubani (fellow)

Bassel Khartabil Day 2020 Celebrated with Online Video Chat Due to COVID-19

2019 Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Opens Call for Applications with Mozilla and Creative Commons

Bassel's 38th Birthday

Majd Al-shihabi keynote at Creative Commons Summit Lisbon

Majd Al-shihabi runs Palestine Open Maps Mapathon, London, UK

Majd Al-shihabi runs Palestine Open Maps Mapathon, Cambridge, UK

Noura Ghazi launches Nophotozone

Provides legal services and support to disappeared Syrians and their families. Idea co-conceived with Bassel

People: Noura Ghazi (founder)

#NEWPALMYRA launches Artifaq platform for cataloging of culture, art, and architecture

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First Bassel Fellow Announced, Majd Al-shihabi

Dedicates Fellowship to the projects Palestine Open Maps and MASRAD:platform, an oral history archive

People: Majd Al-Shihabi (fellow), Ryan Merkley (announcer), Dana Trometer (announcer), Noura Ghazi (witness)

#NEWPALMYRA: first ever 3d model uploaded to Wikimedia/Wikipedia, Asad Al-Lat

Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship Call of Submissions Opens

Over the Edge radio broadcast in tribute to Bassel on 94.1 KPFA (Berkeley, California)

hosted by Niki Korth and Jon Leidecker

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Disquiet Junto Project 0294: Offline Status

Pay tribute to the late Bassel Khartabil by turning his spoken words into music.

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Wikimedia/Wikipedia Announce Creation of Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship

Noura Ghazi confirms Bassel's Death with Syrian authorities

Noura Ghazi first hears rumor of Bassel's Death

#NEWPALMYRA: Tetrapylon by Bassel launches at CC Summit Toronto

Large-scale, 8-foot-high, 3d printed sculpture, based on a reconstruction of the Tetrapylon in Palmyra

Disquiet Junto Project 0271: Prison Sky

Marks the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil's detention. Collaborative composition project based on letter written by Bassel in prison.

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#NEWPALMYRA: Chrome plated Palmyrene Column replica shown in 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale

A World of Fragile Parts pavilion with the Victoria and Albert Museum

Jimmy Wales Foundation Asks "Where is Bassel?"

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Disquiet Junto Project 0202: Text-to-Speech-to-Free

Based on Cost of Freedom book

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'The Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry' book released

Booksprint by Bassel's friends and supporters in Pourrières, France

Bassel Khartabil Executed

(unknown until August 1, 2017)

MIT Media Lab offers Khartabil a Research Scientist position at the Center for Civic Media to work with Ethan Zuckerman

#NEWPALMYRA Project launches by releasing Temple of Bel model into Public Domain

Creative Commons Board of Directors approves resolution calling for Khartabil's release

Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issue a letter demanding that Khartabil's whereabouts be disclosed

Amnesty International releases status update on Bassel

Bassel moved to unknown location with a 'top secret' sealed order from the Military Field Court

Bassel Disappeared

Wael Saad al-Deen was with Bassel when this happens

ISIS destroys Palmyra's Temple of Bel

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Islamic State begins destroying Monuments in Palmyra

ISIS beheads Khaled al-Asaad, lead Palmyra archeologist and collaborator with Bassel on 3d replicas, in the public square

United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) declares Bassel's detention "arbitrary"

3rd annual #FREEBASSELDAY

Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell

Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil's incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing.

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Noura Ghazi makes public a love letter she wrote to Bassel

Syrian refugee crisis spills into the Mediterranean

impacts Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan with thousands of migrants—many of them Syrian and children—dying in the sea

European Parliament to the Commission publishes written statement

2nd annual #FREEBASSELDAY, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

US-led coalition begins bombing Iraq and Syria

ISIS declares a “caliphate” headquartered in Raqqa

Junto 108: Free Bassel collaborative composition competition creates 38 musical pieces

led by Marc Weidenbaum / Disquiet

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European Parliament to the Commission (Vice-President/High Representative) raised Bassel's issue

Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture, translated by Bassel

(unreleased)

Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software, by Bassel

(unreleased)

Bassel receives Index on Censorship's Digital Freedom Award

sponsored by Google

Bassel's birthday and launch of Project Sunlight

brings international attention to his situation

1st annual #FREEBASSELDAY

Bassel meets filmmaker Wael Saad al-Deen in prison

Syrian government used chemical weapons on civilians in East Ghouta

Bassel marries Noura Ghazi

Bassel was brought before a military prosecutor who charged him with "spying for an enemy State".

Bassel on Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list

Amnesty International Taiwan runs letter writing campaign

Amnesty International releases document suggesting Bassel was tortured

#FREEBASSEL Campaign launches

Bassel imprisoned in Saydnaya Prison

Bassel detained by Syrian Military Intelligence

People: Bassel Khartabil (detained)

Bassel's last tweet: 'They can’t stop us #Syria'

United Nations reports 5,000 Syrians killed

Creative Commons Summit Warsaw, last time Bassel is seen publicly

Bassel proposes to Noura Ghazi

People: Noura Ghazi (participant), Bassel Khartabil (participant)

Noura Ghazi and Bassel meet in Douma

People: Noura Ghazi (participant), Bassel Khartabil (participant)

Aikilab closed by Syrian security forces, equipment stolen

Arab Spring erupts

Bassel hosts Open Source leaders in Aikilab, including Mozilla cofounder Mitchell Baker

People: Mitchell Baker (visitor), Bassel Khartabil (host)

Bassel attends CC Lebanon Launch

Open Source Workshop at Digitally Open Forum, Doha, Qatar

Bassel helps run a workshop on open source principles with Fabricatorz, and participates in the negotiations for defining a common language around open source licenses in the Arab World

Bassel visits China

Bassel goes to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Beijing and makes connections to China's hardware community

Bassel attends CC Asia Conference

Qi Hardware Milkymist launches

Video synthesizer, and later first Bitcoin Miner; Bassel was first investor in the project

Qi Hardware Ben Nanonote launches

first Open Source computer

SAMA Lab proposal denied, changes hackerspace name to Aikilab

first hackerspace in Arab World/Middle East

First hackerspace proposal "SAMA Lab" applied for Berkman MEPI proposal

Bassel convinces Al Jazeera to release footage under CC license

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Bassel and Jon Phillips organize "Open Art and Technology" event at University of Damascus

People: Bassel Khartabil (organizer), Jon Phillips (organizer)

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Qi Hardware launches

Openmoko launches

Bassel commits software patch to Inkscape

Bassel meets Jon Phillips on IRC

@rejon meets @bassel

People: Jon Phillips (collaborator), Bassel Khartabil (technologist)

Openclipart Call for Participation

Openclipart is Created

Inkscape is Created

Creative Commons Launched

Bassel begins work on a 3D Reconstruction of the ruins of Palmyra

with lead archeologist, Khaled al-Asaad

People: Bassel Khartabil (technologist), Khaled al-Asaad (archaeologist)

Receives his first Computer

a gift from his Mother, according to his Uncle.

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Bassel learns English

from CD-ROM on his Father's Computer, according to his Uncle.

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Bassel Khartabil Born

Damascus, Syria

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