Role
Professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations at the School of Law and Government , Dublin City University .
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Turin, she earned a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Siena and a Master's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Turin. She taught at the Catholic University of Milan between 2009 and 2011, was a researcher at the University of Turin in 2010 and 2011, and joined Dublin City University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2011, holding that position until 2013.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations and holds teaching positions at Boğaziçi University, Laval University, the University of Montreal (UdeM), the University of Palermo, and the Ecole de Management de Normandie. He is on the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies and of the research project “ What Works ? Sharing Best Practices in How Civil Society Organizations Use the Internet in Organizing and Building for Socio-Economic Rights,” funded by the Irish Research Council and directed by Aileen O'Carroll (Maynooth University) and David Landy ( Trinity College Dublin ). He coordinates the Erasmus Plus International Credit Mobility (ICM) exchange with Bethlehem University and is part of the ITN-Marie Curie funded doctoral training network “Around the Caspian.”
She served as Secretary General of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) between 2013 and 2016. Before joining DCU, she collaborated with several NGOs assisting Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers in Italy and Turkey. Her research focuses on comparative governance in the Middle East and North Africa and on social and political mobilizations. She also works on migration to and from the region. She publishes on these topics in several languages (Persian, English, French, Spanish, and Italian).
He has also worked and published on the issues of precarity in academia and academic freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, the European Union, and the United States.
She is involved in non-academic outreach activities, engaging both the media and the public. Her work focuses on two main approaches to sociopolitical phenomena. The first is the study of how societies are governed through tools such as ideology, political violence, and public policies. In particular, she is working on reformist ideology as a mode of governance aimed not only at producing public order but also at defining spaces for political participation—and on how this disciplinary project encounters resistance.
He has completed a monograph (forthcoming from Palgrave McMillan) on this topic, entitled Political Participation in Iran: From Khatami to the Green Movement. The second approach focuses on comparing models of governance in democratic and authoritarian regimes. By testing the comparability of two regimes that are normally considered "incomparable," he questions the autonomy of politics from ideology and resource management. Other areas of great interest to his work include migration governance, job insecurity, and academic freedom.