Bassel Shehadeh

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Bassel Shehadeh (Arabic: باسل شحادة; January 31, 1984 – May 28, 2012) was a Syrian film maker, producer, IT Engineer, environmental and cultural activist, and a well-known civil activist during the Syrian uprising in 2011 to 2012. He was a pioneer in organising peaceful protests in Damascus denouncing the government’s crackdown of the Arab Spring. Shehadeh was arrested while protesting with fellow artists in the al-Midan neighbourhood of Damascus. His camera captured and documented the assaults and bombardments conducted by the Syrian regime's forces on the city of Homs. He was killed during a government assault in the neighbourhood of al-Safsafa in Homs. Shehadeh was born in Damascus on January 31, 1984, to a family of intellectuals of Christian faith. His mother was an engineer and his father was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Damascus. He had one brother, Alaa, and one sister, Maria, the former being a medical student at Damascus University, while the latter works for a news channel in Dubai. After graduating high school, Shehadeh enrolled at the school of Information Technology at the University of Damascus in 2001. He graduated with a degree in Information Technology in 2006, majoring in Artificial Intelligence.