Role
Professor of International Relations of the Middle East, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. He is currently Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University.
Bio
He holds a master's degree in Ancient Greek Philology and History from the University of Pisa, with a thesis completed at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and two master's degrees, in Economics and International Relations from ASERI and in Middle Eastern Politics from the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. In 2014, he earned a doctorate in international relations from the Catholic University of Milan.
Since her doctorate, she has held research and teaching positions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the University of Oxford, the American University of Beirut, George Washington University, Bocconi University, and Leiden University. From February 2022 to January 2025, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Columbia University in New York and at Sciences Po Paris; she is currently an Assistant Professor at Leiden University.
His research focuses on the competition for power and authority between states and armed movements in the contemporary international system, with a particular focus on the Middle East , state legitimacy, and the justification of political violence. He has studied Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel's expansionism in the region. His most recent research explores the role of ideologies in international politics.