Lamia Al-Gailani Werr

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
لمياء الكيلاني
	Al-Gailani in 2019
Born	8 March 1938; Baghdad, Iraq
Died	18 January 2019 (aged 80); Amman, Jordan
Spouses	Abd al-Rahman Al-Gailani; ; George Werr (died 2003)
Children	3
Awards	Gertrude Bell Memorial Gold Medal (2009)
Academic background
Education	University of Baghdad; University of Cambridge (BA); University of Edinburgh (MA); University of London (PhD, 1977);
Thesis	Studies in the Chronology and Regional Style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Barbara Parker-Mallowan
Academic work
Discipline	Near Eastern archaeology
Sub-discipline	Cylinder seals; Heritage and conflict; History of the Iraq Museum;
Institutions	Iraq Museum; UCL Institute of Archaeology; Near and Middle East Section, SOAS;

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.