Leïla Ladjimi-Sebaï

Leïla Ladjimi-Sebaï is a historian, archaeologist and epigrapher, writer and poet from Tunisia. She is a specialist in the history of Roman-era women in North Africa and the history of Carthage.[1]

Career

Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï has been the Director of Research, National Heritage Institute of Tunisia since 2009, and the President of the Association 'Les amis de Carthage' since 2012.[2][3] Since its inauguration in 2014, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of MUCEM, a Mediterranean Museum at Marseille. From 2002 to 2010 she was President of ICOM (Tunisia), and from 2002 to 2005 was a member of the renovation commission at Carthage Museum, where she spent the majority of her career, and is principally responsible for its large collection of Latin epigraphy. She is a writer and poet, publishing a first collection of poetry, Chams, in 1991, for which she was awarded the “Grand Prix Tahar Haddad de la Nouvelle” in Tunis.^[citation needed]

Education

Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï trained in classical dance and was a resident student at the Bolshoi Theater School in Moscow (1965-1967).[4] Her thesis on African women in the Roman era from epigraphic sources (La femme en Afrique à l'époque romaine: À partir de la documentation épigraphique) received an award in 1977 from the University of Provence.[5]

Awards and prizes

Leïla Ladjimi Sebaï was awarded the Serge Lancel Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Institut de France, Paris, 2005), for her study on Carthage.[6] In October 2010 she was awarded the rank of Officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[7]

Selected works

• Ladjimi, S. L. (2011). La femme en Afrique à l'époque romaine: À partir de la documentation épigraphique. Tunis: Institut national du patrimoine.
• Ben, A. Z., Ladjimi, S. L., Musée national de Carthage., & Maʻhad al-Waṭanī lil-Turāth (Tunisia). (2011). Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes inédites du Musée de Carthage. Rome: École française de Rome.
• Ladjimi, S. L. (2005). La colline de Byrsa à l'époque romaine: Étude épigraphique et état de la question. Paris: C.E.A.M., Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie.
• Ladjimi, S. L. (2002). Index général des inscriptions latines païennes de Carthage. Tunis: Institut national du patrimoine.
• Dietz, S., Ladjimi, S. L., Ben, H. H., & Nationalmuseet (Denmark). (1995). Africa proconsularis: Regional studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunesia. Århus: Distributed by Aarhus University Press.
• Sebaï, L. L. (1993). Elisha: Quatre chants. Tunis: Or du Temps.
• Galley, M., Ladjimi, S. L., International Association of Studies on Mediterranean Civilizations., & Maʻhad al-Qawmī lil-Āthār wa-al-Funūn bi-Tūnis. (1985). L'homme méditerranéen et la mer: Actes du troisième Congrès international d'études des cultures de la Méditerranée occidentale, Jerba, avril 1981. Tunis: Editions Salammbô.
• Ben, A. Z., & Ladjimi, S. L. (1983). Index onomastique des inscriptions latines de la Tunisie. Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

References

1. "histoire". www.cartaginoiseries.org. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
2. "Ladjimi Sebaï, Leïla - Persée". www.persee.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
3. "IDRef".
4. "Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 - PDF Free Download". epdf.pub. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
5. LADJIMI SEBAI, L; EUZENNAT, M. (1977). La femme en Afrique à l'époque romaine (à partir de la documentation épigraphique|.
6. "Lettre d'information n°56" (PDF). ACADÉMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES-LETTRES.
7. "MUCEM" (PDF). p. 36.