We have carried out research in the Gulf, mainly in Kuwait, in the fields of migration (Antía) and Arabic literature (Lorenzo). Our interest in the Gulf was in terms of the Gulf’s connections to other regions, namely South Asia and the wider Middle East...
Antía Mato Bouzas and Lorenzo Casini
Antía Mato Bouzas is senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University and associate researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin). She is the author of Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
Lorenzo Casini is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Messina. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute (2006-2007) and has taught at several Italian universities. He is co-author of Modernità arabe: Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egizianao [Arab Modernity: Nation, Narration and New Subjects in the Egyptian Novel] (Mesogea, 2012).