Person

Polimeno, Maria Gloria

PhD candidate at the Department of International Politics, City University London where, in 2014, she was temporarily appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow. She has integrated her academic education in Arabic, being based between the Middle East and North Africa. She has received a National Scholarship and a Research Scholarship, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Egypt to Rome. In 2012, Maria was based at the Department of Arabic Studies at Cairo University. Her research focuses on Egypt and, specifically, on social movements with an emphasis on Fundamentalist Islamist movements, social justice, Islamic identities, urban politics and decision-making from below in manatiq al-ashwaiyya. Her research interests also consider the EU's foreign policy in the Southern Mediterranean neighborhood, terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies.