Charlotte Labedan-Kodas read Classics at Nanterre University, followed by research on Hellenistic and Roman Mesopotamia at Montpellier University and in the field. She is now an associate researcher at the IFEA in İstanbul.
The first ever edition and translation of a biography of Sallara and his mother Elishbah, exploring both its local context – their asceticism and deeds in North Mesopotamia in the early 7th century – and the geopolitical events underway in the Middle East: war between Persia and Byzantium, and the rise of Islam in the region.