Nedal Haj Darwich

Academic Mentor: Francesco de Angelis, professor, Art History & Archaeology

Research Topic: Hybrid Beings on the Glyptic of Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, and Assyria in the Late Bronze Age

Country: Syria

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Nedal Haj Darwich is a Syrian scholar and archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East, particularly Syria and Mesopotamia. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Damascus, followed by an master's degree in oriental archaeology and semitic languages and a Ph.D. in oriental archaeology, both from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. 

Haj Darwich has held academic positions at various universities, including the University of Alfurat in Syria, Salahaddin University in Erbil, and the University of Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan. He has also been a lecturer at Potsdam University in Germany and, in 2019, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Warburg Institute, University of London.

He has published several articles and books, the most recent of which include, “Hybrid Beings Accompanying the Naked Goddess on Nuzi-Seals,” “Von Syrien bis Georgien—durch die Steppen Vorderasiens, “The Medes and the Extension of Their Empire” (in Zhin Journal, issued by Zhin establishment in Sulaimaniya/Iraqi Kurdistan, Vol. 12, 2021), “Studies in the Archaeology of Media and Upper Mesopotamia” (in Arabic, Damascus, 2020); “Ḫurrian Urkesh Kingdom (Tell Mozan), Historical Cultural Study” (in Arabic, Qamishli, 2017), and “Götter und Mischwesen in Syrien und Westmesopotamien in der Frühbronzezeit” (Gladbeck, 2010).