Pioppi Daniela

Daniela Pioppi is Associate Professor of contemporary history of Arab countries at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies since November 2014.

Trained as an Arabist and a political scientist (first degree in Oriental Studies, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', MA in comparative politics of the Middle East, SOAS, London University, and PhD in history of extra-European countries at the University of Pisa), she has a vast experience of field research in the Arab world. Her main research interests are comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa region with a special emphasis on the recent evolution of Islamist movements/parties.

In 1997 she was recruited as research assistant for the Mediterranean-Middle East Programme of the International Affairs Institute (IAI) of Rome. In 1999 she became research fellow and in 2004, after completing her PhD, Senior fellow of the institute. She has directed several international research projects and she coordinated power2youth, a research project funded under the 7th programme framework of the EU (Grant agreement n° 612782).

Between 2009 and 2014 she was temporary research fellow at the Department of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome.

She is a member of the Editorial board of The International Spectator and of Studi Magrebini.

She is a member of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO).