Role
Professor of African History and Institutions at the University of Rome La Sapienza; Non-resident Senior Fellow at the R. Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC); and Associate Research Fellow at ISPI (Milan).
Bio
He graduated in Contemporary History from the University of Catania in 2008 and obtained a PhD in Political Thought and Institutions in Mediterranean Societies in 2011, carrying out study missions in France, England, Egypt, and Jordan; in 2008, he was a visiting research fellow at CEDEJ and IDEO in Cairo.
Since 2016, he has collaborated with the CRiSSMA of the Catholic University of Milan and is a professor of the Masters in "Migration and Development" at Sapienza and in "Middle Eastern Studies" (MIMES) at the Catholic University.
She is Professor of History and Institutions of Africa at Sapienza University, where she teaches Geopolitics and History of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and is Deputy Director of the Master's Program in Migration and Development. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), an Associate Research Fellow at ISPI, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Leonardo Med-Or Foundation, as well as a columnist for La Stampa.
He specializes in contemporary history of North Africa and the Middle East , geopolitics in the Euro-Mediterranean region, ethnoreligious minorities (Copts and Berbers), and political and social issues in Egypt and Libya. He collaborates on projects on freedom and human rights with CRiSSMA and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, and with ReaCT - Observatory on Radicalism and the Counter-Terrorism.