Education
2024: Visiting at Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2022: Master Degree in History and Oriental Studies, University of Bologna. Dissertation: The salafiyya system: debt bondage in the Arabian Gulf pearling industry
2018: Master Degree in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, University for Foreigners of Siena. Dissertation: ʻOmān e Arabia Saudita nelle relazioni internazionali
2017: Erasmus at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris
2015: Bachelor Degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, University for Foreigners of Siena. Dissertation: Lettere da Babilonia. Patrimonio culturale e identità in Iraq
Seminars and conferences
17/01/2025: presentation Concern VS interest: the British anti-slavery campaign in the Western Indian Ocean at "Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies International Symposium", Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
31/10/2023: presentation From the highest to the lowest: dependency in Arabia between the 19th and the 20th centuries at "International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency", Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
16/10/2023: presentation Capturing people in Arabia: who was enslaved? at "Slavery and Post-Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula. At the crossroads of literature and social sciences", Université Libre de Bruxelles
29/09/2023: presentation The agency of pearl divers: the 1932 revolt in Manama at "Subalterns and the Middle East: Challenges, Histories, Historiographies", Sapienza Unversity of Rome
15/06/2023: presentation The Tightrope between Freedom and Slavery: The Early 20th-Century Gulf as a Case Study at "ENIS Spring School 2023", University of Catania
10/02/2023: presentation Oltre la "schiavitù islamica": il caso dei pescatori di perle del Golfo at "Le giornate di studio Maydan", University of Turin
Further experiences
2019: Study mission World in progress: Qatar, Doha
2018: Middle East Summer Summit 2018, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
