Lorenzo Kamel

@lorenzokamel

Professor of Global History and History of the Middle East and North Africa | Director Research Studies | Faculty

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Joined March 2013
Born October 1, 1980
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    3 Jun 2020

    My new book came out in paperback this week, 1 year earlier than expected. It's more reasonably priced (£19.99). If you can't get your hands on it, do email my institutional address.

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  2. Jun 19

    "Dangerous histories", join us today and tomorrow.

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  3. Jun 13

    By keeping countries poor it is easy to exploit its people. To do so you need: -local corrupted leaderships to bribe -an easy narrative: "we cannot help all of them" -tax heavens: see Panama papers -local natural resources while sending them e-waste. don't make noice

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  4. Jun 8

    La riguarda in primo luogo il presente. É il fulcro per capire il nostro tempo e il mondo che ci circonda. La Storia è pura, e spirito critico. Se la storia è lenta e noiosa, non è vera Storia. 👇

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  5. Jun 7

    is building a wall agst refugees from , a country which Poland helped to destroy in 2003 (Poland was 4th larger force in Iraq). No problem for refugees from (3rd largest force in ): they enter EU under special protection system.

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  6. Jun 4

    Domani dalle 8:15 sono su per parlare di , flussi migratori, ordini globali

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  7. Jun 3

    bello entrare in una Feltrinelli e trovare tante copie del libro che hai a lungo immaginato..soprattutto oggi, a 100 anni (3 giugno 1922) dalla pubblicazione del , 1 documento che ci ricorda i termini sulla base dei quali venne approvato il Mandato di Palestina

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  8. Jun 1

    è al n.20 dei bestseller di Amazon in ("Ripensare la Storia" è al n. 65)

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  9. May 31

    (1991-2000)resulted in the killing of 140000 people. About 20000 women were raped. In Srebrenica 8K boys/men were butchered. About 84% of the victims in Kosovo "died during or in the aftermath of NATO bombing". Many overlook this: as if it did not happen in .

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  10. Retweeted
    Apr 22

    Buen texto de Lorenzo Kamel, de mi querida , sobre el tema en boga y lo que realmente está cambiando. "Has the Russo-Ukraine War Really Changed the Global Order?":

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    May 26

    1/ My new book “Postcolonial People” is out with ! A study of & , it looks at the history & memory of ‘retornados,’ i.e., settlers returning from Portugal’s African colonies after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

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  12. May 22

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  13. May 22

    La "copia staffetta" è sempre una grande emozione..dal 26 maggio in libreria: "Terra Contesa. , e il peso della Storia" con le frecce di . Ci troverete il cuore e le radici più profonde di un conflitto secolare, e la passione di chi lo ha scritto.

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  14. May 19

    Domani alle 13:30 presento "Napoleone e Muḥammad ʿAlī" (Mondadori 2022) al Salone del Libro di Torino (L139, Padiglione 2). Anche on-line:

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  15. May 16

    Back in 2019, the organizers of the Song Contest fined Iceland (and one of Madonna's dancers) after the band displayed scarves with Palestinian . Reason? “Politics and a cultural event should not be mixed".

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  16. May 15

    The expression al-(catastrophe) was 1st used by Israeli soldiers in July 1948 in a leaflet destined to the inhabitants of al-Tira(6km from Haifa), depopulated in Apr-July '48. Today(May15) Pals commemorate their Nakba. My background-piece on that:

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  17. May 12

    il 16 maggio organizza la presentazione del mio nuovo libro. Ne discuto con Francesca (UniBo), Marina (Columbia U.), Paolo (TG1), (Sant'Anna). Modera Rosita Di Peri. Link piattaforma Mondadori:

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  18. May 9

    “we need to integrate non-Western perspectives into higher education curricula in a meaningful way, rather than in a dilettante or tokenistic fashion where a few famous non-Western figures are dropped into the lecture slides to ‘spice up’ a course" Join us on Wednesday👇

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    May 5

    Putin‘s killers murdered a 15 year old kid who was helping to rescue animals from a contested area. Met him moments before the shelling started.

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  20. May 3

    "La ridefinizione dell'ordine globale", mio articolo su Il Manifesto di oggi

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    Apr 29

    Arrested in Russia for “holding invisible anti-government banners” - verbatim from the detention protocols

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