§ TEAM
More than twenty researchers from the Rosario Institute for Arab and Islamic World Studies and the Middle East Studies Group, at the National University of Rosario. Plus the newsroom that edits the observatory: the people who decide what gets published, how it is corrected, what enters the archive and what stays out.
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Honorary President
Rector de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Holds a degree in Political Science (Political Analysis) from the National University of Rosario (UNR), where he is a full professor. Former dean of the School of Political Science and International Relations and currently rector of the UNR.
Director
Universidad Nacional de Rosario · CONICET
Holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from the UNR, an MA in Social Sciences from FLACSO and a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo. Senior researcher at CONICET, full professor of International Relations and director of the UNR's PhD programme in International Relations. She also directs the South-South Relations and Cooperation Programme (PRECSUR).
Research lines
Argentina, Brazil and Africa in South-South cooperation. Latin America-Africa relations. The international insertion of African countries —with a focus on South Africa— and of the Arab and Islamic world. The BRICS in Africa.
Deputy Director
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Holds a degree in International Relations, an MA in International Integration and Cooperation and a PhD in International Relations from the UNR. He coordinates the Middle East Studies Group (GEMO) at the School of Political Science and International Relations, is a full professor of International Economics and leads the seminar on religion, politics and economics in the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa.
Research lines
The international relations of the Middle East and North Africa. Religion and international relations in MENA. Actors, foreign policies, development models and international insertion in MENA.
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Iranian foreign policy and its ties with the Middle East and Latin America.
MENA economies.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israeli domestic politics.
Terrorism, Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Iranian foreign policy.
Turkish and Iranian foreign and security policy.
IREMAI / GEMO
Iraqi and Iraqi Kurdistan foreign policy. Terrorism.
IREMAI / GEMO
Iranian foreign policy. Cybersecurity policy in the Middle East.
Israeli foreign policy. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
IREMAI / GEMO
The Arabian Peninsula, the war in Yemen and MENA economies.
Saudi foreign policy, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iran-Saudi relations.
Centro de Estudios AMIStaDeS (Roma)
Turkish foreign policy.
Morocco.
IREMAI / GEMO
Morocco.
Università di Torino (intercambio)
Syrian foreign policy and the Syrian conflict.
IREMAI / GEMO
Extra-regional powers and the Islamic State.
IREMAI / GEMO
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Iraqi and Iraqi Kurdistan foreign policy.
Technology and innovation.
Libya, migration and climate change.
Israeli foreign policy and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
IREMAI / GEMO
Extra-regional powers.
Extra-regional powers.
Yemen.
IREMAI / GEMO
The Syrian Arab Republic and refugees.
Foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
IREMAI / GEMO
Iranian foreign policy and human rights.
North Africa.
IREMAI / GEMO
MENA economies.
IREMAI / GEMO
Turkish foreign policy.
Human rights, gender and the Islamic State.
IREMAI / GEMO
Security and gender.
IREMAI / GEMO
Libya.
IREMAI / GEMO
Cybersecurity in MENA.
IREMAI / GEMO
Lebanon.
IREMAI / GEMO
Egyptian foreign policy.
IREMAI / GEMO
Refugees and human rights.
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
IREMAI / GEMO
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Holds a degree in Social Communication (UNC), an MA in International Relations (CEA-UNC), an MA in International Relations: the Mediterranean and the Arab World (UNIA) and a PhD in International Relations (UNR). Associate researcher at CONICET and coordinator of the International Studies Department at CIECS, he also runs the Middle East Studies Programme at the UNC's Centre for Advanced Studies.
Research lines
The interplay between identity configurations, cultural dynamics and foreign action across Latin America, Spain and the Arab world.
Qatar University
Holds a degree in Political Science from the UNR and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Research professor at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University and visiting professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, he directs the Political and Electoral Observatory of the Arab and Muslim World (OPEMAM) in Spain.
Research lines
Iranian politics, Gulf politics, international relations in the Persian Gulf and electoral systems in the Middle East and North Africa.
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