NAMEPES

A research platform for scholars, policy-makers, and civil society committed to dialogue, training, and critical thinking on Middle Eastern affairs.

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North African Middle East & Persian Studies

Learning, Understanding, and Shaping the Future of the Middle East — Together

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Leading Experts Guiding Our Mission and Vision

Ali M. Ansari

Full Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews (UK) and founding director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. His research focuses on Iranian nation-building, social and intellectual history, ideology and myth, and Iran’s relations with the West.

Marco Pertile

Fawaz A. Gerges

Pejman Abdolmohammadi

Full Professor of International Law at the University of Trento (Italy). His expertise spans human rights, natural resource law, humanitarian law, and peacebuilding, and he has held visiting appointments at institutions like the Max-Planck Institute, ILO in Geneva, and the International Criminal Court.

Full Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre (UK).

Founding Director of NAMEPES and Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies at University of Trento (Italy) and visiting professor at Berkeley University (US), specialised in the security and politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf and Iranian politics.

Giampiero Cama

Full Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Genova (Italy). He coordinates the Security & Strategic Studies PhD curriculum and serves on various university committees. He is also author of multiple books and articles on Iran’s political and institutional dynamics.

Laura Guercio

Joel Gordon

International human rights expert and qualified lawyer at the International Criminal Court. She led numerous international missions in conflict zones, also serving as Secretary General of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Human Rights at the Italian MFA. She is also Professor of International Relations and Intelligence Systems at the University Niccolò Cusano in Rome.

Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies since 2019, is a political and cultural historian of modern Egypt and the Middle East at the University of Arkansas (US). His research focuses on political change, popular culture, historical memory and mass media, with particular attention to Egypt and the cultural aspects of Nasserism.