Rosita Di Peri

Associate professor


email: rosita.diperi@unito.it
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Rosita Di Peri is associate professor at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin, Italy where she teaches ‘Politics, Institutions and Cultures of Middle East’ and 'Mashrek Politics and Institutions'. She is member of the Phd program in Social and Political Change. Her research interests focus on democracy and authoritarianism in Middle East with a particular attention on Lebanon. Recently she investigated the nexus between power, space and identity in the Mediterranean region with particular interest on borders.
She is the scientific coordinator of the Summer School ‘Understanding the Middle East’ and President of SeSaMO (Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies). She is also the President of the Master programme in International Studies. She published several articles in Italian and international Journals, such as ‘Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche’, ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, ‘British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies’, ‘Politics Religion and Ideology’, 'Mediterranean Politics', ‘Oriente Moderno’ and ‘Meridiana’. She authored two books (Il Libano contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2017 and Guida alla Politica Medio Orientale con Francesco Mazzucotelli) and co-edited several books and Special Issues. In 2023 she co-edited (with Daniel Meier) the book “Mediterranean in dis/order. Space, Power and Identity” for The University of Michigan Press.

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