Archaeology 1974 UNIVERSITÉ SAINT JOSEPH, B.A. in Sciences Politiques Et Administratives 1970 Lebanese Baccalauréat Deuxième

C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

HELENE S A D E R

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT Department of History and Archaeology College Hall Beirut, Lebanon Mailing Address: P.O. Box: 11-0236 Riad el-Solh Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon Cable: AMUNOB Email: [email protected] Fax: 00961- 1- 744461 Tel: Office: (01) 350 000 ext.4183 Home: 03-306952 ______

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

1984 TÜBINGEN UNIVERSITY, ALTORIENTALISCHES SEMINAR Ph.D in Assyriology and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy (scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service= DAAD). 1979 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (AUB), M.A. in Near Eastern Archaeology 1974 LEBANESE UNIVERSITY, B.A. in Archaeology 1974 UNIVERSITÉ SAINT JOSEPH, B.A. in Sciences Politiques et Administratives 1970 Lebanese Baccalauréat deuxième partie - Philosophy 1970 French Baccalauréat deuxième partie- Philo-Lettres

CAREER 2015 Fall Semester Chair, Department of History and Archaeology 2010- 2013 Chair, Department of History and Archaeology 2004-2009 Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2001-2004 Chair, Department of History and Archaeology 2001- Professor of Archaeology

FIELD WORK AND RESEARCH 2017-2019 Book on The History and Archaeology of Iron Age Phoenicia: ca.1200-332 BCE commissioned by Society of Biblical Literature Press, Atlanta, GA. 2017-2020 Partner in EAMENA Project on Endangered Archaeology. Funded by the UK Culture Protection Fund. For details see https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/culture-development/cultural-protection- fund/projects

2016-2017 Research project entitled Ökonomische Austauschnetze in Phönizien in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, Palermo, Cagliari, Pompeu Fabra and DAI Madrid.Project funded by Thyssen.

2015- The Tell Kubbah Archaeological Project in cooperation with Graham Phillip and Kamal Badreshany (University of Durham. UK). Survey and section documentation of the Tell Kubbah Neolithic and Bronze Age Sites.

2011- Book in cooperation with Jens Kamlah: The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project Volume 1: Area I-II: Final Report on the Middle Bronze Age and Late Medieval Period Remains of the 2001-2011 Seasons of Excavation. The ms is completed and edited. It is being prepared for publication by Harrassowitz in ADPV, the monograph series of the Deutsch-Palästina Vereins.

2007- Book project. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Lebanon from Early Villages to the Coming of Alexander the Great. In cooperation with Prof. Hermann Genz. Chapters on the History of Research, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age are completed. The chapters on the Middle and Late Bronze Age are in progress.

2004-2008 Co-director of the Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Archaeological Project. Salvage excavation of a threatened Early Bronze Age Tell. Funding: URB.

2001- Co-director of the Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project. The dig license was extended for the coming 6 years. Work will focus during this period on the Iron Age (Phoenician) remains.

2009- In Cooperation with H. Genz Tell Hizzin Archaeological project. Inventory and publication of the artifacts excavated in 1949-1950 and stored in the storage of the Directorate General of Antiquities.

1994-1996 Co-director of the AUB-Tübingen University archaeological team in the Beirut city center excavations, site BEY 020. Funding: SOLIDERE, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

M.A.THESIS ADVISING IN LAST FIVE YEARS Kallas, N. Graduated Spring 2010 Alameh, J. in progress

Ph.D. THESIS Committee member of the Ph.D. thesis of Francisco Nuñez Calvo defended on January 9, 2008 at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Committee member of the Ph.D. thesis of Joyce Nassar, defended on September 29, 2010 at the University of Bordeaux. Committee member of the Ph.D. thesis of Hanan Charaf, defended June, 2011 at the University of Paris I, Sorbonne. Committee member of the PhD thesis of Anna-Latifa Mourad, 2014, McQuarie University, Sydney-Australia Committee member of the Ph.D. thesis of Laura Trellisó Carreño defended on February 3, 2016 at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

STIPENDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS 2016 Applied for a Lebanese CNRS grant. Rejected. 2015-2016 Applied for a Thyssen grant in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, Palermo, Cagliari, Pompeu Fabra and DAI Madrid for a research project entitled Ökonomische Austauschnetze in Phönizien. Accepted. Grant amount: 36 000 Euros. 2014 Applied for a Thyssen grant in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, Palermo, Cagliari, Pompeu Fabra and DAI Madrid for a research project entitled East and West: the Daily Life of the Phoenicians. Rejected. 2014- 3-year URB Research Grant 2011 URB Research Grant 2010 URB Research Grant 2009 URB Research Grant 2008 (September-November) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut , Berlin 2008 URB Research Grant 2004 (June-August) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin 2003 (September). URB, USAid research grant 2002 (September). URB, USAid research grant 2001 (September). URB, Hewlett grant for research 2000 (July-September). Mellon Grant. Special summer stipend 1999 (April-June) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut , Berlin 1997 (July-September) Mellon Grant. Special summer stipend 1993 (1.9-1.10) Centre Culturel Hispanique, Beirut 1992 (1.10-1.11) Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (CNRS) 1990 (September) URB Development Grant 1988 (July-August) URB Development Grant 1980-1984 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) 1971(1.8-31.8) Centre Culturel Hispanique, Beirut

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Books and Monographs

1987 Les Etats Araméens de Syrie depuis leur Fondation jusqu'à leur Transformation en Provinces Assyriennes. Beiruter Texte und Studien, vol.36. Wiesbaden: Steiner. 2005 Iron Age Funerary Stelae from Lebanon. Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea, vol. 11. Publicaciones del Laboratorio de Arqueología de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona.

Edited Books

1998 Sader, H., Scheffler, T., Neuwirth, A. Eds. Baalbek 1898-1998: Image and Monument, Beiruter Texte und Studien 69. Wiesbaden: Steiner. 2016 Co-editor with H.Seeden of Berytus Volumes 55 and 56.

Articles 1984 Assisted in translation and compilation of excavation reports for Dr. Kh. Nashef, Ausgrabungen und Geländebegehungen. Archiv für Orientforschung 29-30: 247-248. 1985 Les colonnes ou les statues de Kapara? Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 79: 61-63. 1986 Quel était l'ancien nom de Hama sur l'Oronte? Berytus 34: 129-134. 1990 Deux épigraphes phéniciennes inédites. Syria 67: 315-322. 1990 Tell Kazel and Ancient Simyra. Berytus 38: 15-23. 1990 An epigraphic note on a Phoenician inscription from Tell Kazel. Berytus 38: 94-98. 1991 Phoenician stelae from Tyre. Berytus 39:101-126. 1992 Phoenician Stelae from Tyre. Studi epigrafici e linguistici 9: 53-79. 1992 The Problem of the Rise of the Aramaeans. In Ward,W.A. & Joukowsky, M. eds. The Crisis Years: The Twelfth Century B.C. From Beyond the Danube to the Tigris. Kendall/Hunt publishing company. Iowa. 157-164.

1993 Nouvelle inscription punique découverte au Liban. Semitica XLI-XLII, 107-116. 1995 Nécropoles et tombes phéniciennes du Liban. Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea 1: 15-33. 1997 Den Ruinen entsteigt die Vergangenheit. Archäologie in Beirut. Antike Welt Heft 3:397- 406. 1997 Liban: Patrimoine en péril. Travaux et Jours. Nouvelle Série no 60, Université Saint Joseph, Beirut. 159-168. 1997 Tell el Burak: an unidentified city of Phoenician Sidon. in Ponkratz-Leisten, B., Kühne, H. & Xella, P. eds. Ana shadî Labnani lū allik. Beiträge zur altorientalischen und mittlemeerischen Kulturen. Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig. Verlag Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer. Neukirchner Verlag Neukirchen-Vluyn. 363-377. 1998 Uwe Finkbeiner and Hélène Sader Beirut BEY 020: Preliminary report on the 1995 excavations. Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises 2: 114-166. 1998 Phoenician Inscriptions from Beirut. in Leskoe, L.H. ed. Ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Studies in Memory of William A. Ward. Providence: Department of Egyptology, Brown University Publications, 203-213. 1998 Hélène Sader and Thomas Scheffler An Imperial Visit and Its Consequences. In Baalbek: Image and Monument, 1898-1998. Beiruter Texte und Studien 69. Wiesbaden: Steiner. 1-9. 1998 Hélène Sader and Margarete van Ess Looking for pre-Hellenistic Baalbek. In Baalbek: Image and Monument, 1898-1998. Beiruter Texte und Studien 69. Wiesbaden: Steiner. 247-268. 1998 Le Sarcophage d’Ahirom (126), la spatule d’Azorbaal (130), l’inscription de Yehimilk (128-129), les inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques de Byblos (61), une dédicace à Astarté (172). In Matoian, V. ed., Liban,l’Autre Rive. Institut du Monde Arabe Exhibition Catalogue. Paris: Flammarion. 1998 Ancient Beirut: Urban Growth in the Light of Recent Excavations. in Rowe, P. and Sarkis, H. eds, Projecting Beirut. Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of a Modern City. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 23-40. 1999 Vom Baal zum Zeus Heliopolitanos. Baalbek von der Vorgeschichte bis zum späten Hellenismus. In van Ess, M. and Weber, T. Eds. Baalbek. Im Bann römischer Monumentalarchitektur. Mainz: Phlipp von Zabern. 41-45. 1999 Dos inscripciones fenicias del Cerro del Villar. In Aubet, ME et alii, Cerro del Villar-I. El asentamiento fenicio en la desembocadura del rio Guadalhorce y su interacción con el hinterland. Arqueología Monografías. Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Cultura. 144- 146. 2000 La “route de la mer” en Phénicie. In Lemaire, A. Ed. Les routes du Proche-Orient. Des séjours d’Abraham aux caravanes de l’encens. Paris: Le Monde de la Bible-Desclée de Brouwer. 67-85 2000 Une pointe de flèche phénicienne inédite du Musée National de Beyrouth. Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios y Punicos, vol.I, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cadiz 2000. 271-279. 2000 Les villes phéniciennes et leur territoire: reliefs accidentés, modèles unifiés. In Gonzalez- Prats, A. (ed.) Fenicios y Territorio. Actas del II Seminario Internacional sobre Temas Fenicios. Alicante. 227-263 2001 Uwe Finkbeiner and Hélène Sader The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project. A preliminary Report on the 2001 Season. Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises 5: 173-194. 2001 The Aramaean Kingdoms of Syria: Origin and Formation Processes. In Bunnens, G. (ed.), Essays on Syria in the Iron Age. Ancient Near Eastern Studies (formerly Abr- Nahrain) Supplement 7, 61-76. 2001 Lebanon’s Heritage. Will the Past be Part of the Future? in Neuwirth, A. and Pflitsch, A. eds. Crisis and Memory in Islamic Societies. Beiruter Texte und Studien 77. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag. 217-231. 2003 Archaeology and Reconstruction: The Case of Beirut. Proceedings of the International Congress “Die Stadt als Grossbaustelle. Von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit”.Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Berlin. 18-23. 2003 Jens Kamlah and Hélène Sader Im Mutterland der Phönizier. Archäologische Ausgrabungen auf Tell el-Burak, Südlibanon. Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 2/2003: 64-67 2003 (appeared January 2005) Jens Kamlah and Hélène Sader The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project. Preliminary Report on the 2002 and 2003 Seasons. Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises Volume 7 (2003), 145-173. 2004 The Stelae. In Aubet-Semmler, ME et alii. The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre-el-Bass: Excavations of 1997-1999. Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises Volume hors-série I, 383-394 2004 Deutsch-libanesische Ausgrabungen auf Tell el-Burak, südlich von Sidon. Vorbericht nach Abschluss der dritten Kampagne 2003. Zeitschrift des Deutsch-Palästina Vereins 120: 123-140, 6 plates. 2004 Panorama du monde funéraire dans l’Orient phénicien. In González Prats, A. ed. El Mundo Funerario. Actas del III Seminario Internacional sobre Temas Fenicios. Guardamar del Segura, 3-5 de mayo de 2002. Homenaje al Prof. D. Manuel Pellicer Catalán. Alicante: Instituto Alicantino de Cultura”Juan Gil-Albert”, Oficina di Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de Alicante. 77-98. 2005 An inscribed Phoenician Weight from Byblos. In A. Spano Giamellaro ed. Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Phoenician and Punic Studies. Palermo-Marsala. 47- 51. 2005 Les fouilles de Tell el-Burak-Liban: Lumière sur le royaume de Sidon à l’époque perse (Abstract). Transeuphratène 30, 190. 2005 (appeared 2007) Xella, P., Zamora, J.A., Amadasi-Guzzo, M.G., Oggiano, I., Sader, H. Prospection épigraphique et archéologique dans la région du Nahr el-Awwali (Saida/Sidon), Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises Volume 9, 269-290 2005 (appeared 2007) Badreshany, K., Genz, H. and Sader, H. An Early Bronze Age Site on the Lebanese Coast. Tell Fadous-Kfarabida 2004-2005: Final Report. Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 9, 5-116. 2006 L’archéologie phénicienne en Orient: quel avenir? Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea 13. 27-33 2007 Phoenician Stamp Impressions from Beirut. Baghdader Mitteilungen 37, 565-574. 2007 New Phoenician Seal Impressions from Beirut, Orientalia N.S. 76, 57-63. 2007 Genz, H. and Sader, H. Bronze Age Funerary Practices in Lebanon, Archaeology and History in the Lebanon 26- 27, Autumn 2007-Spring 2008, 258-283. 2007 Genz, H. and Sader, H. Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida. Preliminary Report on the 2007 Seasons of Excavations, Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 11, 7-16.

2008 Kamlah, J. and Sader, H. The Tell el-Burak Archaeological project. Preliminary Report on the 2005, 2008 and 2009 seasons. Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 12, 17-34. 2009 Palace Architecture in Tell el-Burak-Lebanon: Some Evidence for Egyptian- Mesopotamian-Levantine Interconnections, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean held in November 2008 in Beirut, Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises hors-série VI, 177-186. 2009 Beirut and Tell el-Burak. New Evidence on Phoenician Town Planning and Architecture in the Homeland, in S. Helas- D. Marzoli eds. Phönizisches und punisches Städtewesen. Akten der internationalen Tagung in Rom vom 21. bis 23. Februar 2007. Iberia Archaeologica 13. 55-67. 2009 Byblos- Ägyptens Pforte zur Levante, in Landesmuseum Württemberg ed., Schätze des Alten Syriens-Die Entdeckung des Königreichs Qatna, Stuttgart. 54-57. 2010 Archäologie in Beirut, in M. Heinz and Vollmer, W. eds., Libanon: Treffpunkt der Kulturen. Eine archäologische Perspektive, Lit Verlag, Berlin. 129-137. 2010 The Aramaeans of Syria: Some Considerations on their Origin and Material Culture, in André Lemaire, Baruch Halpern [and, Associate Editor, Matthew J. Adams] eds., The Books of Kings. Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception, Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 129, Leiden: Harrassowitz. 273-300. 2010 “Tell Hizzin: Digging Up New Materials From an Old Excavation”. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, May 5-May 10, 2008, Volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 635-649. 2010 Phoenician ‘Popular Art’: Transmission, Transformation, and Adaptation of Foreign Motifs in the Light of Recent Archaeological Evidence from Lebanon, in R. Rollinger, B. Gufler, M. Lang, I. Madreiter, eds., Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt. Vorderasien, Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 23- 40. 2010 Kamlah, J.- Sader, H. The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project. Preliminary Report on the 2005, 2008 and 2009 Seasons, Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises, vol. 12 (2008). 17- 34. 2010 Genz, H.-Sader, H. Tell Hizzin: Digging up New Material from an Old Excavation, Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises, vol. 12 (2008). 183-202. 2010 Kamlah, J.- Sader, H. Tell el-Burak: A New Middle Bronze Age Site from Lebanon, Near East Archaeology 73, 130-141. 2010 Kamlah, J.- Sader, H. Deutsch-libanesische Ausgrabungen auf Tell el-Burak südlich von Sidon Vorbericht nach Abschluss der siebten Kampagne 2010, Zeitschrift des Deutsch-Palästina Vereins126: 93-115. 2011 “Phoenicia and the Mediterranean: New Evidence from Recent excavations in Lebanon”, in H. Matthäus, N. Oettinger and S.Schröder eds., Der Orient und die Anfänge Europas. Kulturelle Beziehungen von der späten Bronzezeit bis zur frühen Eisenzeit, Philippika, Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 42, Harrassowitz, 2011. 15-30. 2011 Le Palais du Bronze Moyen de Tell el-Burak au Liban , L’Archéo-Théma, vol. 15, 80-81. 2012 “Between Looters and Private Collectors: The Tragic Fate of Lebanese Antiquities”, in S. Mejcher-Atassi and P. Schwartz eds., Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World, Ashgate Publishers. 57-69. 2013 Archaeology in Lebanon Today: Its Politics and Its Problems, The Ancient Near East Today, July 2013, No 4. 2013 Two Iron Age Stamp Seals from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon, in O. Loretz, S. Ribichini, W. Watson, and J.A. Zamora eds., Ritual, Religion and Reason. Studies in the Ancient World in Honour of Paolo Xella, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 404, Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 321-326. 2013 Çakırlar C., V. Amer, J. Kamlah, and H. Sader. Persian Period dog burials in the Levant: new evidence from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon) and a reconsideration of the phenomenon. Submitted to: V. Linselee, B. De Cupere, S. Hamilton- Dyer (Eds.). Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA) IX. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series. Peeters Press. 2013 Genz, H. and Sader, H. Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon, Berytus Archaeological Studies 53-54 (2010-2011), 133-146. 2014 “The Northern Levant during the Iron Age I Period”. in M. L. Steiner and A. E. Killebrew eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 – 332 BCE). 607-623. 2014 “Aramaean History”, in H. Niehr ed. The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria, Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. 106, Leiden: Brill. Chapter 2. 2014 Nurpetlian, J. and Sader, H. “An Eclectic Collection of Bronze Coins from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon”, in A. Lemaire ed., Phéniciens d’Orient et d’Occident. Mélanges Josette Elayi, Paris: Maisonneuve. 233- 242. 2014 “Trois poids phéniciens inédits de la Collection de la Direction Générale des Antiquités du Liban”, in J. Elayi and J.-M. Durand eds. Bible et Orient. Mélanges André Lemaire, Transeuphratène 46, 37-50. 2014 “Funerary Practices in Iron Age Lebanon”, Archaeology and History in the Lebanon, Issues 40-41, Autumn-Spring 2014-2015, 100-117. 2014 “The Stelae”. In M.E. Aubet et al. The Phoenician Cemetery of al-Bass II, Seasons 2002-2005, BAAL hors série vol. IX, pp. 373-380. 2015 “Phönizische Städte”. In A.-M. Wittke ed. Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen. Historisch-archäologisches Handbuch. Der neue Pauly Supplemente 10. Stuttgart- Weimar: J.B. Metzler. 668-693. 2015 “Intertwined History: Lebanon’s role in the Transmission of Egyptian Culture to Inland Syria in the Middle Bronze Age”. In P. Pfälzner and M. al-Maqdisi (Eds.), Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism. Proceedings of an International Conference in Stuttgart and Tübingen in October 2009. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 117-126. 2015 “Les territoires des villes phéniciennes entre continuité et changement”, Topoi Supplément 13, 107-121.

2016 Höflmeyer, F., J. Kamlah, H. Sader et al., New Evidence for Middle Bronze Age Chronology and Synchronisms in the Levant: Radiocarbon Dates from Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Dab’a and Tel Ifshar Compared. BASOR 375, 53-76. 2016 "The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States in Iron Age Syria", in State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East, Rainer Kessler (Author, Editor), Walter Sommerfeld (Editor), Leslie Tramontini (Editor). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 61-76. 2016 “Archaeology at AUB: Past, Present, and Future”, in One Hundred Fifty, edited by Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Lina Choueiri, and Bilal Orfali. AUB Press. 225-234. 2016 Kamlah, J., Sader, H., Schmitt, A. The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report on the 2011, 2013, and 2014 Seasons in Area 3. Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises, vol.16: 79- 130. 2016 Kamlah, J., Sader, H., Schmitt, A. A Cultic Installation with a Standing Stone from the Phoenician Settlement at Tell el- Burak. Berytus 55: 135-168. 2016 A Phoenician “Incense Altar” from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. Rivista di Studi Fenici 44: 61-66. 2017 „Ancient Lebanon in the Visual Arts“, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 15. De Gruyter. 2018 “Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamath and Lu‘ash”; invited contribution to appear in Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, Editor: Christopher A. Rollston, Publisher: Eisenbrauns. 115-134.

Encyclopedia Articles 1998 Beirut, Biblos, Sidón, Tiro. in Mayer, M. and Rodà, I. eds, Ciudades Antiguas del Mediterráneo. Barcelona: Lurnweg, 294-301. 2015 Eleven entries (Beirut, Orthosia, Khalde, Qana, Tell el-Burak, Ras el-Abiad, Tamburit, Yanuh, Dakerman, Adlun, and Lebanon). Dizionario Enciclopedico della Civiltà Fenicia (An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Phoenician Civilization). Istituto delle Studi sulla Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. On-line publication. 2017 „Ancient Lebanon in the Visual Arts“, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. De Gruyter.1201-1203

Book Reviews

1988 Henry Innes Mc Adam. The Province of Roman Syria. B.A.R. Series. Al Abhath 35 (1987), 115-116. 1991 Nina Jidéjian, I Love Lebanon. Berytus 37(1989),189-191. 1998 Paul-Emile Dion. Les Araméens à l’Age du Fer: Histoire Politique et Structures Sociales. Paris: Gabalda 1997. Die Welt des Orients 29:202-206. 2000 Elayi, J. & Haykal, M.R. Nouvelles découvertes sur les usages funéraires des Phéniciens d’Arwad. Paris: Gabalda 1996. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 2008 Wartke, R.-B., Sam’al. Ein aramäischer Stadtstaat (Berlin, Mainz 2005). Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 124-1, 67-69. 2010 Michaël Jasmin’s L’étude de la transition du Bronze Récent II au Fer I en Palestine méridionale. BAR International Series 1495, Archaeopress, Oxford 2006. Ancient West and East 9, 334-336. 2018 K. Lawson Younger. A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities. SBL Press, 2016. Hardback. 886 pages. Price: $117.95. Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

Publications in Press

Book

Amadasi-Guzzo, M.G., Oggiano, I., Sader, H., Xella, P. and Zamora, J.A. Inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la collection de la Direction Générale des Antiquités du Liban. To appear as a special volume of the Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises.

Articles in press

1- “Inscriptions phéniciennes inédites du Liban”, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Tunis: Institut National du Patrimoine. proofs corrected. 2- “A Phoenician Stamp Seal Impression from Tell Hizzin-Lebanon”, to appear in Festschrift Frances Pinnock to be published in the series Alter Orient und Altes Testament. 3- “The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Phoenicia’s Cultural Resistance”, to appear in up-coming volume of Rivista di Studi Fenici. Proofs corrected. 4- „The Archaeology of the Phoenician Cities“, to appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean. Proofs corrected. 5- „The History of Phoenician Epigraphic Discoveries in Lebanon“. To appear in Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici. Proofs corrected. 6- Aramaic and Phoenician Sources and Neo-Assyrian History”, to appear in Raija Mattila, Robert Rollinger and Giovanni Lanfranchi eds., Writing Neo- Assyrian History: Sources, Problems and Approaches. Proceedings of the International Meeting, University of Helsinki, September 22nd – 25th, 2014 (State Archives of Assyria Studies), Helsinki 2015/2016. Proofs corrected. 7- “A New Phoenician Weight from Tell el-Burak”. To appear in a special issue of the journal Byrsa in honor of Giuseppe Garbini edited by Anaa Chiara Fariselli and Pierfrancesco Callieri.

Teaching:

Courses taught at AUB Arol 201: The Archaeology of Lebanon Arol 217: Phoenicia and the Phoenicians Arol 218: The Phoenician Expansion in the Western Mediterranean Arol 219: Ancient Mesopotamia I. Sumer and Akkad Arol 220: Ancient Mesopotamia II. Assur and Babylon Arol 226: The World of the Philistines, Israelites, and Aramaeans Arol 231: Ancient Near Eastern Religions Arol 233 & 234: Fieldwork Arol 291 & 292: Senior Seminar Arol 293 & 294: Readings in Ancient Texts Arol 303 & 304: Advanced Readings in Ancient Texts Arol 301 & 321 Graduate Seminar and Tutorial Arol 323 & 324: Advanced Fieldwork and Data Collection AROL 307A: Syria in the Late Bronze Age Arol 399 M.A.Thesis. Advisor for Jana Alameh’s M.A. thesis C.S. 201 & 202

Taught in 2016 Spring semester: Arol 395 A

Summer Semester: Arol 233: Fieldwork Arol 323: Advanced Fieldwork and Data Collection

Taught in 2016-2017 Fall Semester AROL 201 The Archaeology of Lebanon AROL 231 Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Presentations at International Meetings

1990 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE TWELFTH CENTURY BC: THE CRISIS YEARS. Brown University. Providence. USA (May 1990). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1991 DEUXIÈME COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR LA SYRIE-PALESTINE A L'EPOQUE PERSE. Paris (October 1991) 1991 TROISIÈME CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ÉTUDES PHÉNICIENNES ET PUNIQUES. Tunis (November 1991). Paper 1993 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NEAR EAST. Barcelona (May 1993). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1993 COLLOQUIUM ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LEBANON. Frankfurt (July 3. 1993). INVITED PARTICIPATION. 1994 FIRST REGIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON PRE-ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS IN BILÂD ASH-SHAM. Yarmuk University, Jordan (April 25-27. 1994). INVITED PARTICIPATION. Paper “New epigraphic evidence from Lebanon”. 1994 42e RENCONTRE ASSYRIOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONALE. Berlin (4-8 July 1994). 1995 IVth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC STUDIES. Cadix (6-10 October 1995). Paper. 1996 PAPER: Archaeological Excavations in the Center of Beirut, read at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. (May 21,1996). INVITED LECTURE. 1997 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BEIRUT “Projecting Beirut”. Harvard School of Design (11-12 April 1997). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1997 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. San Francisco (22- 26 November 1997). INVITED LECTURE 1998 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (SOMMERAKADEMIE) on Crisis and Memory, held at the German Orient Institute-Beirut. (September 18, 1998). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1999 II SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE TEMAS FENICIOS. Fenicios y Territorio. Organized by the University of Alicante. Guardamar del Segura (April 9-11, 1999). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1999 LES ROUTES DU PROCHE-ORIENT: LES QUATRE SEJOURS D’ABRAHAM, LES ROUTES DE L’ENCENS ET LA VIA MARIS. Three round tables organized under the auspices of UNESCO by le Monde de la Bible and l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris. (May 6, 1999). INVITED PARTICIPATION 1999 LECTURE ON EARLY ARAMAEAN HISTORY read at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin. (June 2, 1999). INVITED LECTURE 2000 5th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC STUDIES. Marsala-Palermo (Sicily), (October 2-8, 2000). Paper presented “An inscribed Phoenician Weight from Byblos” 2001 THE 5TH MILLENNIUM FOR THE INVENTION OF WRITING IN MESOPOTAMIA. Baghdad (Iraq). March 20-26, 2001 2001 DIE STADT ALS GROSSBAUSTELLE. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. Berlin (Germany). November 7-10, 2001. INVITED PARTICIPATION 2002 EL MUNDO FUNERARIO. III SEMINAR INTERNACIONAL SOBRE TEMAS FENICIOS. Alicante (Spain). May 3-5, 2002. INVITED PARTICIPATION 2002 125 JAHRE DEUTSCHER PALÄSTINA-VEREIN. Colloquium organized by the Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästina. Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Giessen- Germany. November 22-24, 2002. INVITED PARTICIPATION. “The Phoenician Kingdom of Sidon in the Light of Recent Excavations on Tell el Burak-Lebanon” 2003 VIème COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR LA TRANSEUPHRATÈNE À L’EPOQUE PERSE. Organized by the Institut Catholique, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Institut Protestant de Théologie. Paris. November 6-8, 2003. Lecture entitled: “Les fouilles de Tell Burak: lumière sur le royaume de Sidon à l’époque perse” 2003 LEBANESE WEEK. HERITAGE DAY. Organized by the European Institute of the Mediterranean. Barcelona, December 17, 2003. INVITED PARTICIPATION on “Archaeology in Post-War Lebanon: The Case of Beirut and Tell Burak”. 2004 ARCHÄOLOGIE AKTUELL-MODERNE FORSCHUNG-GLOBALE PARTNERSCHAFT. German Archaeological Institute. Berlin, November 11-13, 2004. INVITED PARTICIPATION: “The Tell Burak Excavations in Historical Perspective”. 2004 ARABWORLD DAYS. German Bundestag-Berlin. December 2004. INVITED PARTICIPATION to represent Lebanon. 2005 VIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC STUDIES. Lisbon-Portugal. September 26- October 2, 2005. Paper: “The Phoenician Kingdom of Sidon in the Light of the Recent Tell-el-Burak Excavations”. 2006 INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM « Die Ursprünge Europas und der Orient- Kulturelle Beziehungen von der Späten Bronzezeit zur frühen Eisenzeit ». INVITED PARTICIPATION. Phoenicia and the Mediterranean: New Evidence from Recent Excavations in Lebanon”. Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. February 17-18, 2006. 2006 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (ICAANE 5). Madrid, April 3-7, 2006. Paper entitled:” A Middle Bronze Age Palace with Wall Paintings from Tell el-Burak-Lebanon”. 2006 AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, November 2006, Washington D.C. Paper presented “A Middle Bronze Age Palace with Wall Paintings from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon”. 2007 ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES-SORBONNE January 15-27, 2007. INVITED AS A VISITING SCHOLAR to give a series of four lectures on “The Archaeology of Beirut”, “The Excavations of Tell el-Burak-Lebanon”, “Phoenician Funerary Practices”, and “Phoenician Epigraphy: New inscriptions from Lebanon”. 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC URBANISM, PHŐNIZISCHES UND PUNISCHES STÄDTEWESEN, Rome, February 21-23, 2007, organized by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Paper: “The Phoenician City: New Evidence on Town Planning and Architecture from Beirut and Tell el-Burak”. 2007 INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, 19-23 November, 2007, “Die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts: Interkulturelle Begegnungen in der alten Welt”, , Leopold- Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Paper: “ Phoenician „Popular“ Art: Transmission, Transformation and Adaptation of Foreign Motifs in the Light of recent Archaeological evidence from Lebanon“. 2008 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (ICAANE 6): 5-10 May 2008, University of Rome-Italy. Paper: ”Tell Hizzin in the Biqā‘: New Evidence from an Old Excavation”. 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: 24-25 May, 2008, “Collecting-Alternative Visions of the Past”, American University of Beirut. Paper: ”Between Looters and Collectors: The Tragic Fate of Lebanese Antiquities”. INVITED PARTICIPATION 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: 5-8 November, 2008, “Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Age”. Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities- Lebanese-British Friends of the National Museum, Beirut. Paper:” Palace architecture in Tell Burak: Some evidence for Egyptian-Mesopotamian- Levantine interconnections”. INVITED PARTICIPATION 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: 19-22 November, 2008, Annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston-USA. Paper: “Tell Hizzin in the Biqā‘: New Evidence from an Old Excavation”. 2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: 17-20 October 2009, Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism, Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Paper: ”Intertwined History: Lebanon’s Role in the Transmission of Egyptian Culture to Inland Syria in the Middle Bronze Age”. 2009 VIIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC STUDIES: November 10-14, 2009, Hammamet-Tunisia. Paper: “New Phoenician Inscriptions From Lebanon”. 2010 STATE FORMATION AND STATE DECLINE IN THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST PAST AND PRESENT, 24. – 27.3. 2010, Center for Near and Middle East Studies, University of Marburg. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Paper:” The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States of First Millennium BC Syria”. 2010 TEMPLE BUILDING AND TEMPLE CULT, International Conference on Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant (2.-1. Millennium B.C.E.), May 28-30, 2010. INVITED PARTICIPATION to chair two sessions on Iron Age Syrian temples. 2010 THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE POTTERY OF LEBANON IN ITS NEAR EASTERN CONTEXT, International workshop organized by Helene Sader and Marlies Heinz, AUB, August 9 and 10, 2010. 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, Atlanta, November 17-20, 2010. Paper: “News from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. More on the Middle Bronze Age Palace and Its Wall Paintings”. 2012 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (ICAANE 8), Warsaw April 30th-May 4th, Co-organizer of a workshop with H. Genz. Paper on “Continuity and Discontinuity of Settlement on the Lebanese Coast: The Case of Tell el-Burak”. 2012 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH, Chicago November 16th-19th, 2012. Paper on “The Iron Age Settlement of Tell el-Burak, South Lebanon”. 2013 COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL. LA PHÉNICIE HELLÉNISTIQUE. NOUVELLES CONFIGURATIONS POLITIQUES, TERRITORIALES, ÉCONOMIQUES ET CULTURELLES. Toulouse, February 18th-20th. Lecture title:” Les territoires des villes phéniciennes entre continuité et changement”. INVITED PARTICIPATION. 2013 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP EAST AND WEST. PHOENICIAN EVERYDAY CULTURE AND PHOENICIAN SOCIETIES FROM THE LEVANT TO SPAIN. Tübingen March 4th-5th. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Lecture title: “Survey of Iron Age Sites in Lebanon”. 2013 VIII CONGRESSO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI FENICI E PUNICI, October 21-26, 2013. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Congress. . INVITED PARTICIPATION 2013 11th MAINZ INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT HEBREW, November 1st-3rd, 2013, University of Mainz. INVITED PARTICIPATION. Lecture title: “Published and unpublished epigraphic discoveries in Lebanon in the last 20 years”. 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, November 18-21, 2014. Paper: “Tell el-Burak in the Iron Age: Town Planning and Architecture”. 2015 CENTER FOR PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC STUDIES, OXFORD, UK, “Phoenician Archaeology in Lebanon: Past, Present, and Future”, March 16th, 2015. INVITED LECTURE 2015 COLLINGWOODS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, UK, “Tell el-Burak in the Middle Bronze and Iron Age”, March 18th, 2015. INVITED KEYNOTE LECTURE 2016 TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (ICAANE 10), Paper: “Tell el-Burak in the Iron Age: Town Planning and Architecture”. Vienna 25–29 April. 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING San Antonio, November 16th-19th. Paper:” Wine Industry at Tell el-Burak?” 2016 RELIGION AND EMPIRE IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE LEVANT Finnish Institute of the Middle East-American University of Beirut (AUB), October 22 – 25. INVITED PAPER: “The Assyrian Empire and Phoenicia’s Religious Resistance”. 2017 MELAMMU 11: Evidence Combined: Western and Eastern Sources in Dialogue Beirut, 3-6 April 2017. INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “Phoenician Encounters: Cultural Dialogue or Cultural Monologue?”. 2018 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (ICAANE 11), April 3-7, 2018. Munich-Germany: “Wine Industry at Tell el-Burak”.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY 1991-1993 Administrative Committee, AUB. Member. 1990-1992 Student Affairs Committee, AUB. Member. 1996-1998 Research Committee, AUB. Member. 1997-1998 Advisor to the History and Archaeology Student Society. 1999-2001 Advisor to Majorless Arts students. 1999-2001 Graduate Committee, AUB. Member 1999-2001 Center for Behavioral Research Executive Committee. AUB. Member. 2000-2002 USFC, AUB. Member. 2000-2001 Secretary of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Meetings. 2001-2002 Advisory Committee, AUB. Member. 2002 Member of Task Team 11 on Educational Offerings. 2002-2005 Chair, Department of History and Archaeology 2003-2005 Advisory Committee, AUB. Member 2004 Whitlessey Chair Committee. Member 2004 CASAR Search Committee. Member 2004 Alfred Howell Endowed Chair Committee. Chair 2004-2009 Associate Dean. FAS 2004-2009 Acting Chair, SAAC Administrative Committee 2005 Ad-hoc Committee for the promotion of Maher Jarrar. Chair 2005 Alfred Howell Endowed Chair Search Committee. Chair 2005 Whitlessey Chair Search Committee. Chair 2005 Strategic Planning Committee. FAS. Member 2005 Fine Arts and Art History Search Committee. Chair 2005-2010 Commencement Committee 2006-2007 President’s Task Force for Tenure. Member 2007- Re-accreditation task team for Educational Offerings. Co-Chair 2007 Ad-hoc search committee for the position of Director of CASAR. Chair 2007 Ad-hoc search committee for the Edward Said Chair in American Studies. Chair. 2007- BCBCB Advisory Board. Member. 2008 Ad-hoc Committee for renewal of contracts in the English Department. Chair 2008- University Research Board. Member. 2009 Ad-hoc committee for renewal of contract in the Fine Arts and Art History department. Chair 2009 Ad-hoc committee Chair to evaluate the promotion files of Syrine Hout and Bashar Haidar. 2009 Ad-hoc search committee for the Edward Said Chair in American Studies. Chair. 2009-2013 University Publications Committee. Chair. 2009-2017 University Research Board, Member. 2010 Due Process Monitor for Faculty of Medicine. Chair of DPM Committee. 2010- Chairperson, Department of History and Archaeology 2010-2012 Advisory Committee, Member. 2010-2013 Academic Committee, Member 2011-2012 Search Committee for OSB Dean, member 2011-2012 History and Archaeology Program Review Committee, Chair 2011-2013 History and Archaeology Program Learning Outcome Assessment Committee, Chair 2012 Grievance Committee, Member 2013 Authorship Dispute Committee FAS, Member 2013 Search Committee for Jabre-Khawarizmi Chair for Islamic Science and Philosophy, member 2013 Promotion committee for Hermann Genz, Chair. 2014-2015 Promotion committee for Paul Newson, Chair 2014-2016 Committee for FAS 150 celebration. Chair 2016-2017 Promotion Committee for Coralie Pison Hindawi. Member 2016-2017 Re-appointment of Professor Fawwaz Tuqan. Chair 2017 Appointed non-voting member at the BoD for faculty promotion. 2017- PPRC, member

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

1988- Book Review Editor of BERYTUS 1995- Member of the Editorial Board of the National Museum publication Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises (B.A.A.L.) 1995- Member of the Editorial Board of Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea., a publication of the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 2002- Member of the Editorial Board of Maarav, an independent journal focusing on West Semitic languages and Literature, California. 2017- Member of the editorial board of Madrider Mitteilungen. 2017- Member of the editorial board of Rivista di Studi Fenici. 2017- Member of the editorial board of Byrsa.

2007 External referee for the academic evaluation of the German Archaeological Institute- Berlin. May 3-4, 2007.

2014 External referee for the promotion of Hani Hayajneh to the rank of Professor at Yarmuk University-Jordan. 2015- Member of the Editorial Board of Byrsa an independent journal focusing on Art, Culture and Archaeology of the Punic Mediterranean, Italy.

2015- Member of the Editorial Board of Rivista di Studi Fenici an independent journal focusing on Phoenician Archaeology and Epigraphy, Rome, Italy. 2015 External referee for the promotion of Nabil el-Ali to the rank of Professor at the University of Jordan. 2015 External referee for the promotion of Nada el-Rawabdeh to the rank of Associate Professor at the King Rania Institute for Tourism. 2016 External referee for the promotion of Hussein al-Qudrah to the rank of Full Professor at the King Rania Institute for Tourism. The Hashemite University. 2017 External referee for a post-doc position (Topoi) at the Free University of Berlin for Marwan Kilani.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS 1998- Elected Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut), Berlin 2001- Der deutsche Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas, Tübingen 2010- American Schools of Oriental Research.