Role
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society at the University of Turin.
Bio
After graduating in Political Science, she completed a Master's in Public Policy Analysis, graduating with honors in 2000. She then worked as an expert on Mediterranean issues for Paralleli, the North-West Euro-Mediterranean Institute, and earned a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Turin in 2007 with a thesis on the democratization process in Lebanon. She has spent periods of study and research in Paris, Beirut, Tunis, and Istanbul.
Since 2011, she has worked at the Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society at the University of Turin, where she became an associate professor in 2019. She teaches Middle Eastern Politics, Institutions, and Cultures and Mashreq Politics and Institutions. Her research focuses on democracy and authoritarianism in the region, with a particular focus on Lebanon , political and social transformations, and regional dynamics.
She is the scientific coordinator of the Summer School "Understanding the Middle East." From 2023 to 2025, she served as President of SeSaMO, the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2026, she published, with Chiara Maritato, a study on Turkish-Lebanese relations and governance practices in the SWANA region.