North Africa and Middle East, Mediterranean, Carthage, Hannibal, memory, war, gender, North Africa, Persians, Sasanians, Near East. frontiers, late antiquity, Romans, Mediterranean, reception, Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula,Iran, Zenobia, Shirin, Dido, Sophonisba, the social history and archaeology of the opponents of Rome and the Roman Empire. I have worked previously on the Carthaginians and am now researching and teaching on the Sasanians Persians.