One year after October 7: genocide, anti-Semitism and other academic contributions on the Middle East

Author Biographies

• Cila Lima, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

  I have been teaching 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students for some years now; Ph.D in Social History through the USP. I have a master’s degree in Social History through the USP, a postgraduate specialization in International Relations through the FESPSP, and a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences through the UNESP. Author of the books Women and Islamism: the cases of Egypt and Turkey (version in English) and Islamic Feminism: discursive mediations and practical limits (version in Portuguese). I am a member at two research centers: the Center for History and Historiography Studies (NEHH) - an extension of the History Theory and the History of Historiography Laboratory (LABTEO) - and the Working Group on the Middle East and Muslim World (GTOMMM)– an extension of the Asian Studies Laboratory (LEA). I am also a co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Malala Review (www.revistas.usp.br/malala ). I have acted as a professor/monitor in the graduate-level discipline of West and Islam: Challenges and Responses, 1990-today. Ideological debates and International Policies, organized by Professor Dr. Peter Robert Demant and the undergraduate discipline History of International Relations I, organized by Professor Dr. Peter Robert Demant at University of São Paulo. I have acted as a substitute professor in the graduate-level discipline of Modern History at the Federal University of São Carlos/SP.

• Natalia Calfat, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

  É doutora e mestre em Ciência Política pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), onde atua como pesquisadora do Grupo de Trabalho sobre Oriente Médio e Mundo Muçulmano (GTOMMM/LEA-USP). Foi pesquisadora visitante na Universidade de Harvard em 2019 e colaboradora do Project on Shiism and Global Affairs, Harvard Divinity School. Board member dos research committees sobre Politics and Ethnicity e Religion and Politics da International Political Science Association (IPSA). Desenvolve pesquisas sobre compartilhamento de poder entre minorias político-religiosas no Líbano, com particular atenção ao veto xiita, clientelismo e consenso comunal inter-elites. Atuou como consultora da Organização Internacional do Trabalho (ILO Geneva) para cooperação triangular Sul-Sul entre Brasil e Líbano. É editora executiva da Malala - Revista Internacional de Estudos sobre Oriente Médio e Mundo Muçulmano (ABCD-USP) e desde 2017 atua Teaching Fellow na IPSA USP Summer School in Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations.