Architect Khaled Omar Tadmouri, a resident of Tripoli, received the “Excellence Award” in the category of “Culture and Arts”, in recognition of his efforts in various fields. Khaled Omar Tadmori has become well known for his significant contributions to his field.
Tadmouri is an architect, academic researcher, and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Lebanese University.
He is also the supervisor of doctoral theses at the Higher Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Urban Planning.
For twenty-one years, he chaired the Committee on Antiquities and Heritage in the Tripoli Municipality and was a member of the National Commission for UNESCO in Lebanon.
He graduated from Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul in 1998 and obtained a master’s degree in architectural restoration in 1998.
He then received a doctorate in urban planning and preservation in 1944 from the same university.
In cooperation with the Turkish Coordination and Cooperation Agency (TIKA), he contributed to the restoration and revival of a large number of Ottoman buildings in Lebanon and the Arab world.
The most prominent of these are the restoration of the “Mawlawi Tikiyah”, the “Hamidiya Hill Clock Tower” and the “Prophet’s Monument” room at the Mansouri Mosque in Tripoli.
In addition, the “Hamidi Path” in Beirut’s Sanaye Park, the “Hamidiya School” in Mashha Akkar, and the “Hamidi Mosque” in the port city.
He also published dozens of books and researches and held cultural and photographic exhibitions accompanying documentary films.
It dealt with the common Islamic and Ottoman heritage in the Arab world, Lebanon and Turkey.
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