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Date Title Publication
29 Aug 2020 UCSD Library uses technology to digitally reconstruct destroyed Syrian temple La Jolla Light
20 Aug 2020 Destroyed Ancient Temple Now Open for Virtual Exploration The Library UC San Diego
26 Aug 2019 Virtual Reconstruction Of Ancient Temple Destroyed By ISIS Is Another Reason To Put Your Holiday Photos Into The Public Domain Techdirt
17 Apr 2019 Experts Are Already Arguing Over How To Rebuild Notre Dame Vice
15 Oct 2018 Can Preservation Be ‘Progressive?’ Exhibit Columbus Symposium Looks Forward in the Shadow of Masters Metropolis
30 Sep 2018 #NewPalmyra Launches #Palmyraverse Online Space with Monthly Prompts to Create all3dp
25 Jul 2018 #NEWPALMYRA: Breathing Life Lost Into Syria’s Ancient City progrss
22 Feb 2018 Wikipedia Goes 3D Allowing Users to Upload .STLS For Digital Reference 3d Printing Industry
20 Feb 2018 You can now upload 3D models to Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia
07 Feb 2018 Creative Commons launches Memorial Fund Grants and Fellowship in Memory of Bassel Khartabil Creative Commons
05 Oct 2017 Bassel Khartabil's Story Proves Online Activism is Still Powerful Wired
27 Sep 2017 How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet Wired
11 Aug 2017 Wikimedians pack their bags and head to Montreal for 13th annual Wikimania Wikimedia
11 Aug 2017 In Memorium Bassel Khartabil Lorna Campbell
11 Aug 2017 Honoring Our Friend Bassel: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship Creative Commons
06 Aug 2017 'They Can't Stop Us' — World Mourns Execution of Palestinian-Syrian Activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi by the Assad Regime Global Voices
05 Aug 2017 Bassel lived for a peaceful and open Syria - so they killed him Independent IE
03 Aug 2017 Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian 'Executed' Malaysian Digest
03 Aug 2017 Man who created 3D version of Palmyra before city was destroyed by ISIS killed by Assad regime Evening Standard
03 Aug 2017 Disappeared Palestinian-Syrian software developer reportedly executed Electronic Intifada
02 Aug 2017 L’exécution en 2015 du Syrien Bassel Khartabil confirmée Reporters Sans Frontieres
02 Aug 2017 On the death of Bassel Khartabil Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab
02 Aug 2017 Bassel Khartabil, Syrian-Palestinian Online Activist, Executed by Syrian Government Inverse Culture
02 Aug 2017 Honouring Bassel Khartabil, Syrian digital activist Index on Censorship
02 Aug 2017 Syrian-Palestinian Online Activist Bassel Khartabil Confirmed Dead Years After Arrest in Syria Haaretz
02 Aug 2017 Missing Syrian internet activist Bassel Khartabil executed in 2015 CNN
02 Aug 2017 Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian 'executed' aljazeera
02 Aug 2017 Syrian Activist Bassel Khartabil Reportedly Killed by Assad Regime Albawaba News
02 Aug 2017 Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian 'executed' Al Jazeera
01 Aug 2017 Bassel Khartabil, In Memoriam Electronic Frontier Foundation
01 Aug 2017 Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil Creative Commons
31 Jul 2017 Report: Syrian-Palestinian Open Internet Advocate Bassel Khartabil Has Been Executed The Fader
30 Jun 2017 How Virtual Reality Could Change the Art World JStor Daily
15 Jun 2017 Against a Pile of Ashes Victoria and Albert Museum
05 Jun 2017 Artists and Writers Celebrate the Work of Missing Syrian Developer Bassel Safadi Global Voices
03 May 2017 Resurrecting Palmyra's Tetrapylon with 3D printing
02 May 2017 How a 3D-printed piece of Palmyra landed in Toronto CBC News
02 May 2017 3D printed replica of destroyed Palmyra Tetrapylon showcased at Creative Commons Summit 3ders.org
08 Mar 2017 Reconstruir la ciudad de Palmira gracias a Internet El Futuro
08 Mar 2017 Reconstruir la ciudad de Palmira gracias a Internet
01 Feb 2017 A Virtual Legacy Lives On FON Formnext Mag
10 Dec 2016 ISIS recaptures Palmyra: A fresh assault on heritage sites? Christian Science Monitor
08 Aug 2016 Armas 3D desde Murcia contra las bombas del ISIS El Mundo
01 Jul 2016 When All Roads Led to Palmyra History Today
20 Jun 2016 Should museums be recreating the past? Creative Review
27 May 2016 Erasing Isis: how 3D technology now lets us copy and rebuild entire cities Guardian
26 Apr 2016 Technology and Cultural Heritage Preservation Patty Gerstenblith
22 Apr 2016 Story of cities #28: how postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings Guardian
20 Apr 2016 The problem with rebuilding a Palmyra ruin destroyed by ISIS – does it simply help Assad? Washington Post
20 Apr 2016 What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology? Hyperallergic
18 Apr 2016 Palmyra's Ancient Arch, Destroyed By ISIS, To Rise Again In London NPR
08 Apr 2016 Can we 3D re-print the history we’ve destroyed? Quartz
01 Apr 2016 #NewPalmyra Crowdsources the Majestic History That ISIS Destroyed in Syria Global Voices
31 Mar 2016 Should we 3D print a new Palmyra? The Conversation
26 Mar 2016 Barry Threw at Shenzhen Assembly 2016
01 Mar 2016 The Heroic Effort to Digitally Reconstruct Lost Monuments Smithsonian Magazine
01 Feb 2016 Radio interview with Barry Threw on Bassel Khartabil: the missing Syrian open-source software developer ORF FM4 Radio
21 Jan 2016 Programmers and artists are fighting ISIL’s destruction with 3D printers Quartz
20 Jan 2016 Wikipedia founder: Information can beat oppression CNN
14 Jan 2016 Archaeologists Revive Missing Activist's Dream Of Reconstructing Palmyra Huffington Post
18 Dec 2015 Syrie: qu’est devenu le prisonnier Bassel Khartabil, pionnier syrien de l’Internet libre? France24
11 Dec 2015 Bassel Khartabil: fears for man who brought open internet to the Arab world The Guardian
04 Dec 2015 #NEWPALMYRA, la technologie face à la barbarie ARTE futuremag
03 Dec 2015 باسل خرطبيل، السجين السوري الذي يكاد يفقد حياته من أجل الإنترنت Global Voices
26 Nov 2015 Director Barry Threw at CyArk Summit 2015
24 Nov 2015 Tech world takes on icon-smashing Islamic State with a virtual Palmyra Christian Science Monitor
18 Nov 2015 Director Barry Threw at ProtoCultural Paris 2015
16 Nov 2015 Jon Phillips on #freebassel Campaign #newpalmyra #protocultural and events
13 Nov 2015 Internetaktivister genrejser Palmyra uden Islamisk Stats ødelæggelser Politiken
11 Nov 2015 MIT Media Lab Is Helping to Digitally Reconstruct Syrian City Ravaged ISIS Boston Magazine
10 Nov 2015 Help Fight ISIS by Rebuilding Palmyra in 3D The Creators Project
03 Nov 2015 Disappeared Syrian Activist's 3-D Models Could Save Palmyra The Voice of America
28 Oct 2015 Archaeologists armed with ‘cheap’ 3D cameras hope to rebuild ancient sites razed by Islamic State news.com.au
24 Oct 2015 Free 3D Printable of the Week: #NEWPALMYRA 3D Printing Industry
23 Oct 2015 An Open-Source Project to Rebuild Palmyra Architect Magazine
22 Oct 2015 MIT Media Lab reaches out to jailed Syrian activist with research position in Center for Civic Media Joi Ito
22 Oct 2015 Al Arabiya News Bulletin / Special on Bassel Khartabil and #newpalmyra Project
21 Oct 2015 A Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History From ISIS WIRED
15 Oct 2015 نماذج ثلاثية الأبعاد لناشط سوري معتقل قد تنقذ تاريخ سورية من داعش
08 Oct 2015 Bassel Khartabil, prisonnier syrien qui vit et risque de mourir pour Internet slate.fr
10 Sep 2015 باسل الخرطبيل، السجين السوري الذي يكاد يفقد حياته من اجل الانترنت