Professor Anna Leone

Co-Director

Anna's research and publications focus on the problems related to the evolution of North African cities from Late Antiquity to the Arab conquest and to issues of the economy of the Mediterranean between the 6th and the 9th c. Since 2014 she has been actively working for the documentation and protection of Heritage in Conflict and in Danger, with a specific focus on Libya and Tunisia. Anna is currently preparing for publication an excavation done in the '70s in Syria (Dibsi Faraj) of a fortified citadel occupied from the 1st-3rd c. AD to the 10th c.; the first volume of the fieldwork conducted at Lunca (Tunisia).

Anna has conducted with Lisa Mol the first ever conducted evaluation of the impact of bullets on the Roman Theatre of Sabratha (Sabratha Heritage Protection | HeritageinCrossfire (heritageinthecrossfire.com). Anna has lead the project "Training in Action" between 2017 and 2019 for the training and management of sites and monuments in Libya and Tunisia (Training in Action – From Documentation to Protection of Cultural Heritage in Libya and Tunisia). Anna has just started a new project with Lisa Mol (UWE) - Partnership for Heritage - funded by Aliph and Kaplan which looks at documenting the tangible and intangible heritage of the regions of Tataouine (Tunisia) and the Nafusa (Libya) as well as providing a long-term preservation through conservation training and building conservation.

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