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Alessia Melcangi is TT Assistant Professor of Contemporary History of North Africa and Middle East and Globalization and International Relation at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Social Sciences and Economics (DiSSE). She collaborates with the Centre of Research on the Southern System and the Wider Mediterranean (CRiSSMA – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)and she is member of the scientific committee of ReaCT – Osservatorio sul Radicalismo e il Contrasto al Terrorismo and of CIPMO – Centro Italiano per la Pace in Medio Oriente.
Her researches are mainly focused on the Contemporary history of North Africa; geopolitics and international relations in the Euro-Mediterranean area; ethno-religious minorities (in particular the Copts and the Berbers); identity dynamics and dynamics of polarization in the contemporary Middle East; political and social issues in contemporary Egypt and Libya. Regarding these issues she has published several monographs, peer review articles in Italian or international Journals, papers in edited works and policy papers. Her last monographs are: Melcangi A.,Statualità e minoranze: meccanismi di resistenza e integrazione in Medio Oriente. Il caso dei cristiani copti in Egitto (Ledizioni, Milano 2018);Melcangi A.,I copti nell’Egitto di Nasser. Tra politica e religione (1952-1970) (Carocci, Roma 2017).She also has co-edited the volume North African Societies After the Arab Spring: Between Democracy and Islamic Awakening (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2016).
Contacts: alessia.melcangi@uniroma1.it
personal page:
https://web.uniroma1.it/disse/node/7477; https://unict.academia.edu/AlessiaMelcangi
Source: https://aseri.unicatt.it/aseri-faculty-alessia-melcangi
Publications:
- For Egypt, the crisis could be upon us June 6, 2022
- Egypt and the many knots on human rights February 8, 2022
- US and Egypt: Between Regional Cooperation and Human Rights November 15, 2021
- Egypt between regional matches and post-Covid revival September 28, 2021
- Egypt recalibrated its strategy in Libya because of Turkey June 1, 2021
- Egypt: all the risks of the al-Sisi regime May 19, 2021
- Turkey-Egypt: Bridging the Gap? May 17, 2021
- A Two-Pronged Egyptian Strategy To Deal with the Libyan Chaos September 24, 2020
- Libya’s crisis is a tough puzzle to solve for Egypt June 18, 2020
- Egypt: the pandemic undermines internal stability and regional ambitions May 25, 2020
- The coronavirus crisis highlights the unique challenges of North African countries March 30, 2020
- Egypt between the Libyan crisis and the Middle East question February 21, 2020
- Egypt’s latest protests are an alarm bell for Sisi October 21, 2019
- Egypt: why protests against al-Sisi September 30, 2019
- Egypt: rights and security, another crackdown September 24, 2019
- Challenges for Egypt’s Fragile Stability July 3, 2019