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Bassel Khartabil

1981 - 2015

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Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; 22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015), also known as Bassel Safadi (باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian-Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations say that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary. Khartabil was born in Damascus to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, and was raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Bassel Khartabil is the 176th most popular computer scientist (up from 222nd in 2024), the 188th most popular biography from Syria (up from 196th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bassel Khartabil ranks 176 out of 245. Before him are Edward F. Moore, Randy Pausch, Andy Hertzfeld, Luis von Ahn, Bruce Schneier, and Katie Bouman. After him are David Marr, David Karp, Peter Shor, Jean E. Sammet, Michael Dertouzos, and Richard Garriott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Bassel Khartabil ranks 222. Before him are Han Hye-jin, Sara Foster, Boyd Holbrook, Dimitris Salpingidis, Barbara Bush, and Mladen Petrić. After him are Matthew Taylor, Natalie Horler, Takashi Maeda, Ilary Blasi, Demna, and Jelena Jensen. Among people deceased in 2015, Bassel Khartabil ranks 448. Before him are Anatoly Logunov, Chris Burden, Abu Anas al-Libi, Andy Fraser, Steve Strange, and Edward Brooke. After him are M. H. Abrams, Hitoshi Saito, Alberta Watson, Martin Milner, Ray Lumpp, and Ferenc Juhász.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 188 out of 210. Before him are Omar Souleyman (1966), Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali (1969), Maximos IV Sayegh (1878), Abdulbaset Sieda (1956), Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (1977), and Ghada Shouaa (1972). After him are Razan Zaitouneh (1977), Yusra Mardini (1998), Samar Yazbek (1970), Yasser Seirawan (1960), Assala Nasri (1969), and Randa Kassis (1970).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Syria

Among computer scientists born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 1. After him are Dina Katabi (1970).

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