Leila Badre

Leila Badre (born 20 February 1943) is a Lebanese archaeologist and director of the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.^[1]

Biography

Badre was born in

Between 1968 and 1975 she worked as a research assistant at the AUB Museum, from 1977 to 1979, then as a research scientist at the French Institute of Middle Eastern Archaeology (IFAPO) and later in 1992 as a consultant for the department of history and archaeology at the University of Balamand.

She has held three teaching positions; at the

Her interests include heritage conservation,

Badre has directed several excavations in Lebanon (Tell el-Ghassil 1968-74, Sarafand 1969-74, Arqa 1978, Beirut Town Center 1993-99, Beirut St. George Cathedral 1995-2000, Kaftoun Monastery Chekka 2004–present, Tyre 2012), Syria (Ugarit 1973, Ibn-Hani 1977-79, Tell Kazel 1985-2010), Yemen (Hadramout 1979-83) and Dubai (Trucial States 1969-70).

Prominent studies include those of

• Badre, Leila., Tell Kazel, Syria: excavations of the AUB Museum, 1985-1987 : preliminary reports, Faculty of Arts and Science, American University of Beirut, 124 pages, 1990.[5]
• Badre, Leila., Breton, Jean-François., Audouin, Rémy., Wādī Ḥaḍramawt: prospections, Centre Culturel et de Recherches Archéologiques, 114 pages, 1980.^[6]
• Badre, Leila., "Le périmètre archéologique de Tyr", Tyr et la formation des civilisations méditerranéennes, Paris 1992.
• Badre, Leila., "Les peuples de la mer à Ibn Hani, problème de destruction et de ré-occupation"., Atti del I Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici Vol. I, Roma 1983.
• Badre, Leila., Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite à l'Age du Bronze en Syrie., B.A.H., LXXXV, Paris, P. Geuthner, 1980.^[7]
• Badre, Leila., Recently Discovered Bronze Age Temples : Middle Bronze Beirut and Late Bronze Tell Kazel in Acts of the First, International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Roma, 1998.
• Badre, Leila., “Cultural Interconnections During the Late Bronze Age at Tell Kazel", in Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (BASOR) No. 343, Baltimore., 2007.
• Badre, Leila., "Beyrouth 003 Preliminary Report, Excavations of the American University of Beirut Museum 1993 - 1996", in Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, volume 2, 1997 p. 6-94, 2007.
• Badre, Leila., Les découvertes archéologiques du Centre Ville de Beyrouth" in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions, et Belles Lettres. Paris, 1997, 2007.
• Badre, Leila., "Sondage stratigraphique à Shabwa-Hadramout 1976-81", Syria, LXVIII, Paris 1991.
• Badre, Leila., “Handmade Burnished Ware and Contemporary Imported Pottery from Tell Kazel" in the Proceedings of the, International Symposium held at Rethymnon, Crete, 2002. Sea Routes…Interconnections in the Mediter. 16th-6th c. B.C., Athens, 2003.
• Badre, Leila., "The Third Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Excavations of Tell Kazel 1993-1998, BERYTUS, vol. XLIV, Beirut, 1999-2000.

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