Dipartimento di Studi Storici

On November 12, IAI’s Mediterranean and Middle East Programme, together with the Department of Historical Studies and the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, co-organize an international webinar that will explore the historical, economic and political dimensions of the impact of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa.
6 authors, from the Middle East and Europe, will present 6 research studies covering Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and the Persian Gulf.

More information
www.iai.it

• Working language: English (no translation)
• Pre-Registration
• Web Seminar on Zoom Platform

OPENING REMARKS
NICOLÒ RUSSO PEREZ, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation

INPUT PANEL
DANIELA HUBER, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

ROSITA DI PERI, University of Turin | A sectarianised pandemic: COVID-19 in Lebanon
ANAS EL GOMATI, Sadeq Institute | Covid-19 in Libya: Distraction, dissidence and diplomacy
YARA HAWARI, Al-Shabaka | COVID-19 in Palestine: A pandemic in the face of "Settler colonial erasure"
LORENZO KAMEL, University of Turin and IAI | Regional alignments and confrontations: COVID-19's impact in and beyond the Persian Gulf
AFRAH NASSER, Human Rights Watch | War and COVID in Yemen
SAJAD JIYAD, Independent political analyst, Baghdad | Struggling Iraq Faces Another Crisis in COVID-19

Open discussion