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Lorenzo Kamel

Lorenzo Kamel is Associate Professor of History at the University of Turin, scientific director of the New-Med Research Network, and director of the IAI's Research Studies. He held teaching and research positions in many universities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, including the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he served as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher, and Harvard University, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for 2 years. His most recent book is entitled 'The Middle from Empire to Sealed Identities' (Edinburgh UP 2019).

Il cliché di un Iraq artificiale e diviso

Lorenzo Kamel
“Gertrude d’Arabia, la donna che ha inventato l’Iraq”. Questo il titolo di un recente articolo pubblicato da Clive Irving su The Daily Beast. Si tratta dell’ultimo di una lunga serie di pubblicazioni - giornalistiche e accademiche - che in…

Women’s role in Egypt and a changing society

Lorenzo Kamel
Khulthum Odeh (1892-1965) is often regarded as the first Arab woman ever to be appointed professor. Born in Nazareth, Odeh immigrated to Russia in 1914 where, in the early 1930s, she founded an institute of Arabic studies at the University…