Role
Professor of History of Islamic Countries at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Cagliari
Bio
She graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Cagliari (Institute of African and Oriental Studies), where she also earned a PhD in History and Institutions of Modern and Contemporary Asia and Africa. In 1997, she became a researcher at the Faculty of Political Science at Cagliari, and since June 2006, she has been a professor of History of Islamic Countries at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the same university.
She researches political Islam and Islamic radicalism, political dissent and youth in the contemporary Arab world, the diffusion of Antonio Gramsci's thought in Arab countries , and Muslim immigration to Italy and Europe, with a particular focus on Egypt and Tunisia. She has directed research projects on the processes of democratization in Mediterranean Arab countries and the reception of Gramscian thought, and was the director of GramsciLab, the Interdepartmental Center for International Gramscian Studies at the University of Cagliari, from December 2017 to December 2023.
His recent publications include the volumes Gihad. Definitions and rereadings of an overused term (2019), A lesson from Gramsci. Democracy, political participation, civil society in Tunisia (2019), In the classrooms and on the streets: students and political struggles (2018) and Universities and student movements in contemporary Egypt (1908-1981) (2016).