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
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
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
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
^
abTorino, Università degli Studi di.
"Prof. Lorenzo Kamel". Dipartimento di Studi Storici.
^Kamel, Lorenzo (2015). Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN9781784531294.
^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.
S2CID156693255.
^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.
^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.
S2CID153944896.
^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.