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Lorenzo Kamel

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Lorenzo Kamel (born 1 October 1980) is Professor of Global History and History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin,[1] director of the Istituto Affari Internazionalis Research Studies,[2] and scientific director of the "New-Med Research Network".[3]

Career

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He held teaching and research positions in universities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, including the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he served as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher,[4] and Harvard University, where, among other appointments, he was a postdoctoral fellow for two years with a project entitled "Artificial Nations? The Sykes-Picot and the Islamic State's narratives in a historical perspective".[5] He holds a two-year M.A. in Israeli society and politics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Ph.D. in history from the University of Bologna, and lived for years in several countries in the Middle East, including, with visiting appointments, Egypt ('Ain Shams University), the Palestinian Territories (Birzeit University), Israel (Hebrew University), and Turkey (Bilkent University). He speaks Italian, English, Hebrew, Arabic and has a working knowledge of French, Ottoman Turkish, and Latin.

Publications

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He published fourteen books on Global History, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean affairs,[1] including Imperial perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times, an award-winning and widely acclaimed book [6] based on sources from 17 archives.[7] The Cambridge Review of International Affairs pointed out that the book "broadens the existing scholarship with a well-researched, even-handed volume that clearly fills a hole in the historiography"[8] while the Journal of Palestine Studies reviewed the book stating that it provides a "fascinating and convincing interpretive analysis".[9] Sara Roy (Harvard University) noted that the book is a "powerful and truly illuminating study", while Hebrew University's Moshe Ma'oz contended that "for anyone with an interest in deconstructing the present of our region this book is a must".[10]

His book entitled The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities, was praised by Nicholas Doumanis as "one of the most definitive works on the transition from empire to nation-state".[11] Former MESA's President, Beth Baron, wrote that the book "will make an important mark on the field", while Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder) contended that it provides "chronological continuation of much of the most interesting work being done in pre-modern Mediterranean Studies".[11] His publications include also over 30 articles on leading academic journals such as British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,[12] Mediterranean Politics,[13] Peace and Change,[14] Eurasian Studies,[15] New Middle Eastern Studies,[16] Passato e Presente,[17] Oriente Moderno,[18] and over 200 articles and policy papers on Al Jazeera,[19] Ha'aretz,[20] Al-Monitor,[21] Project Syndicate,[22] The Daily Star (Lebanon),[23] The National Interest,[24] The National,[25] Aspen,[26] Middle East Eye,[27] and other media outlets in 10 languages, in over 30 countries.

He is a board member of a number of academic journals, including Palgrave Communications,[28] Eurostudium,[29] Passato e Presente,[30] and frequently acts as a peer-reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant "The Study of the Human Past"), Cambridge University Press, International Affairs (Chatham House), and other institutions, publishing houses and journals.

Prizes

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He was awarded with the 2010 "Giuseppe Sciacca International Prize",[31] the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Grant (2015), and the 2016 Palestine Book Awards (1st prize, academic section).[32]

References

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  1. ^ a b Torino, Università degli Studi di. "Prof. Lorenzo Kamel". Dipartimento di Studi Storici.
  2. ^ "Publications > IAI Research Studies | IAI Istituto Affari Internazionali". www.iai.it. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Home". new-med.net.
  4. ^ "Dr. Lorenzo Kamel — Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies – FRIAS". www.frias.uni-freiburg.de.
  5. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (2016). "Artificial nations? The Sykes-Picot and the Islamic State's narratives in a historical perspective" (PDF). Diacronie. 25 (1).
  6. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (2015). Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781784531294.
  7. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo. Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times, 1854-1923 (I.B. Tauris, London/NY 2015, 336 p.): Winner of the Palestine Book Award 2016 (academic section) – via www.academia.edu.
  8. ^ Guthorn, Harrison B. (2016). "Imperial perceptions of Palestine: British influence and power in late Ottoman times". Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 29 (2): 796–798. doi:10.1080/09557571.2016.1194579. S2CID 156693255.
  9. ^ Fischbach, Michael R. (1 August 2016). "Review: Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times, by Lorenzo Kamel". Journal of Palestine Studies. 45 (4): 86–88. doi:10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.86.
  10. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (8 February 2015). "Imperial perceptions of Palestine: Orientalism and colonialism in the Holy Land" – via Open WorldCat.
  11. ^ a b "The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities". Edinburgh University Press Books.
  12. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (2014). "Whose Land? Land Tenure in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 41 (2): 230–242. doi:10.1080/13530194.2013.878518. S2CID 153944896.
  13. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo; Huber, Daniela (2015). "Arab Spring: A Decentring Research Agenda". Mediterranean Politics. 20 (2): 273–280. doi:10.1080/13629395.2015.1033901. S2CID 142779301.
  14. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo; Huber, Daniela (8 February 2012). "The De-Threatenization of the Other: an Israeli and a Palestinian Case of Understanding the Other's Suffering". Peace & Change. 37 (3): 366–388. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2012.00755.x.
  15. ^ "Eurasian Studies Vol. X 1-2 2012 | Libreria Editrice Aseq". Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  16. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (2014). "The Impact of 'Biblical Orientalism' in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine". New Middle Eastern Studies. 4. doi:10.29311/nmes.v4i0.2641.
  17. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (15 September 2017). "Medio Oriente e "artificialità": una prospettiva storica". Passato e Presente (102): 109–123. doi:10.3280/PASS2017-102006 – via www.francoangeli.it.
  18. ^ KAMEL, LORENZO (2010). "The Tantura Affaire". Oriente Moderno. 90 (2): 397–410. doi:10.1163/22138617-09002007. JSTOR 23253467.
  19. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo. "Torpedoing Africa, and then complaining about 'migration'". www.aljazeera.com.
  20. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (5 August 2014). "Why Do Palestinians in Gaza Support Hamas?". Haaretz.
  21. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (13 June 2013). "The Myth of the One-State Alternative to the Two-State Solution". Al-Monitor.
  22. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (4 January 2017). "Cutting ISIS's Lifelines | by Lorenzo Kamel". Project Syndicate.
  23. ^ "UNSC Resolution 2334 on Israel: Why history matters". www.dailystar.com.lb.
  24. ^ Kamel, Lorenzo (29 August 2016). "There Is No Thirty Years' War in the Middle East". The National Interest.
  25. ^ "Despite the popular narrative, Iraq is not simply an 'artificial creation'". The National. 12 October 2014.
  26. ^ "Site off-line | Drupal".
  27. ^ "Irredentism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Middle East Eye". www.middleeasteye.net. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014.
  28. ^ "Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board | Palgrave Communications". www.nature.com.
  29. ^ "Rivista". www.eurostudium.it.
  30. ^ "Comitato editoriale". 30 October 2018.
  31. ^ "Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sciacca". www.disci.unibo.it.
  32. ^ "Imperial Perceptions: British influence and power in late Ottoman times - Palestine Book Awards". Palestine Book Awards.
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