Ciubekka 
I pass by this mural every day.
How I would have loved to visit Palmyra on my last bike tour to the Middle East.
I would have honored a great person, Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad.
He was a Syrian archaeologist who headed the antiquities in the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
He held this position for over forty years.
Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83.
