Halabi, Suleiman al- (1777-1800): Syrian student who assasinated the commander of the French military in Egypt in 1800. Born in Aleppo, northen Syria. He was a student at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt when French armies under Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the country. On June 14, 1800, he followed General Kléber, commander-in-chief of the French Army, and stabbed him to death before escaping. Two days later, he was arrested by the French and brought to trial which sentenced him to death. Al-Halabi was executed in a very brutal way that took nearly 4 hours. He was impaled in public in a Cairo main square and his right hand was burned. His corpse was later taken to France. His skull was displayed, for years, to students of medicine, who were shown the 'bump of crime and fanaticism', before ending up in the Musée de l'Homme.