Role
Professor of Arab Cultural Institutions at the University of Milan-Bicocca and of Arab Culture at the University of Milan; Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Observatory of the ISPI (Milan).
Bio
After graduating cum laude in History from the University of Milan with a thesis on Ben Ali's Tunisia (2005), he continued his academic training with a master's degree on the Arab-Muslim world at the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-en-Provence, 2006) and then at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Milan with a PhD in International History (2010). During that period, he began his collaboration with Professor Gian Paolo Calchi Novati, a distinguished Africanist at the University of Pavia, which continued until his death (2017).
Together they will carry out short research projects on Italian foreign policy towards North Africa (for the Center for Asian and Eastern Studies, Rome 2013-2014), on EU-Nigeria relations (ISPI report, Milan 2014) and EU-Israel relations (special issue of Il Ponte, Florence 2015), as well as teaching and publishing. In 2012, she was a tutor and instructor for the course "Middle East. Actors, Dynamics, Perspectives" organized by the Fondazione Collegio delle Università milanesi.
In 2014, she collaborated with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM, Milan) to organize the Summer School within the "Economy and Society" project, and in 2014-2015 she participated in the research "Understanding Mestizaje - Governing Change" by the Oasis Foundation (Venice, Milan). Since 2014, she has taught at the University of Milan-Bicocca a workshop on national and international development cooperation (degree program in Sociology), which directly involves non-profit organizations in the classroom. In 2017, the workshop was also established within the degree program in Organizational Sciences. Since 2017, she has been a teaching assistant in the History and Institutions of Islamic Countries department, a role she previously held in the History and Institutions of Africa (2011-2014) and History of International Relations (2006-2007) departments at the University of Milan. He has been studying contemporary Algerian history since 2009.
Her doctoral research, conducted in Algerian and French military archives and subsequently published by Mimesis Edizioni (2012), is part of the emerging trend of studies on the internationalization of the Algerian War (1954–1962). Her research focuses on: Algerian institutional political history from the colonial era to the present, with particular reference to the dynamics between Algerian political forces and the use of nationalisms; and North African regional history, understood and analyzed as an area in which the five countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt) have experienced common historical phases dominated by locally inflected transnational ideologies.
He edited the bibliographical and content update (2018 re-edition) of the renowned text on the history of Algeria from independence onwards by Calchi Novati for Bompiani, for which he also wrote a popular-scientific summary of the regional history of North Africa (2019).
She holds lectures and seminars on the contemporary history and current affairs of Algeria, North Africa, and Euro-Mediterranean relations at universities, research centers, and think tanks , and is often invited to appear as a guest on radio stations and newspapers.
He participates in academic conferences and symposiums, combining research with scientific outreach.