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Roundtable “Dynamics of Place and Identity: Amman and Kuwait City” — Ifpo Amman, 20 mai 2025

The talk will explore the notions of identity within the process of accelerated urbanization of Amman, and the parallel case of Kuwait City, discussing how spatial dynamics and narrated identities interact as shape each other, particularly with those whose belonging is questioned or “unfulfilled”.

Intervenants :

Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian scholar, writer, poet, and activist. His main research interests are in the fields of political theory, postcolonial transformations, and enduring colonial effects in the Arab region, in addition to urban transformations and malformations of his hometown, Amman. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Westminster, London, and is currently a researcher on the political economy of energy in the Middle East at the Center for International Studies (CERI) – Sciences Po and the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo).

Odetta Pizzingrilli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa, and she is an affiliated researcher with the French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula (CEFREPA), Kuwait. She has been a visiting scholar at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) in Kuwait; she was previously a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan and the Renaissance Strategic Center (RSC) of the NGO Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD). She also held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, where she obtained her PhD. Her main research interests include minorities and minoritization processes in the Arab region, identity narratives and counter-narratives, Jordan, and Kuwait.

Organisation & modération : Mariangela GASPAROTTO

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (16 mai 2025). Roundtable “Dynamics of Place and Identity: Amman and Kuwait City” — Ifpo Amman, 20 mai 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 19 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13xty


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