Gailani Werr, Lamia
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- New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 28, 2019(in obituary published Jan. 25: Lamia Al-Gailani Werr; b. Lamia Al-Gailani, b. Mar. 8, 1938, Baghdad; m. Abd al-Rahman Al-Gailani, a second cousin and Islamic architecture historian (div.); m. George Werr (d. 2003); d. Jan. 18, Amman, Jordan, aged 80; as one of the Iraq's first female archaeologists, helped her country's national museum recover from the looting of its antiquities at the outset of the Iraq war; built her reputation as a widely respected scholar, curator, and writer over nearly a half-century, living mostly in London but returning regularly to Iraq to do research)
- Studies in the chronology and regional style of old Babylonian cylinder seals, 1988:t.p. (Lamia al-Gailani Werr) p. vii (Ph. D. thesis, Inst. of Archaeology, Univ. of London, 1977) addendum to bibliog. (L. al-Gailani)
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Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (Arabic: لمياء الكيلاني, 8 March 1938 – 18 January 2019) was an Iraqi archaeologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities. Al-Gailani was born in Baghdad and completed her education in Iraq and the United Kingdom. Her doctoral study of Old Babylonian cylinder seals was considered a landmark in the field. Based in London, in her later career she was known for maintaining links between British and Iraqi archaeology under the Saddam Hussein regime, and her efforts to preserve cultural heritage in the aftermath of the Iraq War. She was closely involved in the reconstruction of the National Museum of Iraq, where she had worked as a curator in the 1960s, and the founding of the Basrah Museum. She was awarded the fifth Gertrude Bell Memorial Gold Medal by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq in 2009.
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