Prof. Lorenzo Kamel

Lorenzo Kamel is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), where he lectures on the history of the modern Middle East. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and a non-resident Associate at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), where he served as a postdoc fellow for two years. He published six books on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean affairs, including “Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times”, winner of the academic section of the Palestine Book Awards 2016