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Numerous journeys in UK and Germany for the study of the English and the German languages and literatures. 
1978, Degree in German language and literature, Salzburg Universität, Austria.
1979, Degree in American language and literature, Berkeley University, Berkeley, CA., USA.
1980, High School Degree Liceo “Virgilio”, Mantova, Italy.
1981, Degree in German language and literature, Heidelberg Universität, Heidelberg, Germany.
1983, Degrees in Comparative Government & International Relations, Harvard University, School of Arts and Sciences and of Education, Cambridge, Mass., USA.
1989, Laurea Degree in Political Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
1995, Ph.D. in History of Africa, Faculty of Political Science, Siena University, Italy.
1996, winner of post-doc research fellowship, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
1999, winner of check of research for History of Africa, Faculty of Political Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2001, winner of Assistant Professor competition in History of Africa, Faculty of Political science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2004, Tenure as Assistant Professor in History of Africa, Faculty of Political Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2006, Adjunct Professor of History of Afro-Asian Countries.
2008, Adjunct Professor of History and Institutions of Africa.

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ENGLISH FLUENT
GERMAN GOOD
KISWAHILI ELEMENTARY
FRENCH ELEMENTARY

Research Interests

1993, research conducted in School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, The British Museum Library, The India Office Library and Records, The Royal Society of Asian Affairs, The Royal Geographical Society, The Public Records Office, Foreign Office, UK, finalized to the publication: L’isola di Zanzibar. Storia e Strategia nell’Oceano Indiano, 1799-1856, L’Harmattan-Italia, Torino, 2002.
1996, research: The Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, Exeter University, UK, 1996, research: Library of the University of London.
1997, research in The Oxford Oriental Institute, The Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Ashmolean Museum finalized to the publication: Il Sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciali e relazioni internazionali.
1998, research in The Oxford Oriental Institute, The Bodleian Library, Oxford University, SOAS, University of London, finalized to the publication: Il Sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciali e relazioni internazionali. 
2000, Deutsch-Omanische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a.M, Germany.
2000, Juma Al-Majid Center, Dubai, UAE.
2000, Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), Geographisches Institut, J. Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany.
2001, Islamwissenschaft Zentrum, Bayreuth University, Germany.
2002, Fowler Center of African Studies finalized to the publication: Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), Leiden, Brill, 2004.
2004, American University of Sharjah, UAE.
2005, Zanzibar National Archives, Tanzania, finalized to the publication: Studies in Magic, Witchcraft, War and Peace in Africa: 19th and 20th Century, New York, Mellen Press, 2006.
2007, University of London, Leiden University, The Netherlands, finalized to the publication: The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during the XIX century, in S. De Silva & J.P. Angenot (Eds.), Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2008. 
2008, on official invitation, collaboration to the historical texts for the New National Museum of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Muscat.
2008, consulting for Dr Quintana-Mursi, Institute Pasteur, Paris, for interdisciplinary research about the Afro-Asian DNA.
2011, Northwestern University; Newberry Library, Chicago, USA.
2011, creation of new teaching methodologies on the Western Indian Ocean History through Fb page. Requested by The Global Journal of World History, USA.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND GRANTS OF RESEARCH
1998, official invitation by Dar An-Nahar, Beirut, Lebanon, publication of the monograph study Jazirat Zanjibar. Al-Tarikh wa-l-Istraijia fi al-Muhit al-Hindi 1799-1856. First book requested into Arabic in the Faculty of Political Science, Catholic Universiy.
2003, winner of the Grant £500 Society for Arabian Studies, London, Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856).
2003, winner of the Grant $1000 by Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Sultanate of Oman Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856).
Since 1996, MESA Bullettin, USA, as expert and collaborator A rated journal.
2004, representantive for Italy Tadia/UNESCO “Slave Trade Route”.
2006, Peer Reviewer “Canadian Journal of African Studies” A rated journal.
2008, Official appointment by The Council of Higher Education, Office of the Secretary General, Sultanate of Oman, for the historical section of the New National Museum of Muscat, Oman.
2008, Peer reviewer “Journal of Popular Culture and Religion”.
2009, Referee to SOAS, University of London, UK, African Politics and History.
2010, Tutoring Dr. Galia Sabar, African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2011, Tutoring Dr. Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Chargé de recherche au CNRS, Chargé de conférences à l'IISMM, UMR 8032 Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques & centrasiatiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
2012, Peer Reviewer “Storicamente”, “Alma Mater” University, Bologna.
2012, Co-tutoring Dr. Ameen Lufti Ph.D. Thesis, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA.

Teaching Interests

Professor (Adjunct) SPS/13, African History and Institutions, 14/B2 History of International Relations, Societies, and Extra European Institutions. SH6 - The Study of the Human Past.
Since academic year 1990/91, Teaching Assistant to the Chair of History 
and Institutions of the Muslim Countries and History and Institutions of 
Afro-Asian Countries, Faculty of Political Science, Catholic University of 
the Sacred Heart, Milan.
Chair of History of Afro-Asian Countries, I Semester 2006-7, II Semester 2007-8; Chair of African History and Institutions, 2008-9; 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, Degree in International Politics for Development Cooperation (LM81); Degree in Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy – Historical Sciences; Cultural Heritage Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Chair of Anthropology and Sub-Saharan Culture, Faculty of Linguistic Sciences, Università Cattolica, Milan, 2004-2005.
Since 2009, Faculty Member of Doctorate School in Politics and Institutions, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
Member of the Department of Political Science, Dir. Prof. M. De Leonardis.
Since 2010-11, Member of the following Commissions: 1) Tutorship, Bio data, Stage; 2) Promotion and connections with High Schools; 3) Students admission policies; 4) International relations.
2008-2010; 2010-12; 2012-14, Representative Adjunct Professors to the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

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MONOGRAPH STUDIES

2) 2004, Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-04-13780-7.
Winner of the Grant £500 Society for Arabian Studies.
Winner of the Grant $1000 Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Sultanate of Oman. 
Reviews: P. Risso, “International Journal for Middle Eastern Studies”, n. 37, 2005; M. Limbert, “Iranian Studies”, March 2006; J. Brennan, “Tanzanian Affairs”, 29.6.05; “Oriente Moderno”, nuova serie, anno LXXXV, 1, 2005; B. Bernardi, “Africa”, Anno LXI, n. 1, 2006, P. Nugent, “Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature”, vol. 90, Issue I, December 2006, pp. 160-161; R. Loimeier, “Die Welt des Islams”, vol. 46, n. 1, 2006; I. Niehaus, Brunel University, Londra, 2008; H. Donner, “Contemporary South Asia”, vol. 17, n. 3, pp. 331-350, 2009; The New York Review of Books.

3) 2012, The First Sultan of Zanzibar. Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean, M. Wiener, Princeton, USA, pp. 250, ISBN 978-1-55876-5443.

INTERNATIONAL EDITOR 
4) 2006, Studies in Magic, Witchcraft, War and Peace in Africa: 19th and 20th Century, Preface by B. Bernardi, New York, Mellen Press, ISBN 13 978-0-7734-5727-0.
Reviews: J.H. Jézéquel, Emory University, “International Journal of African Historical Studies”, 2007, pp. 384-386; P. Geschiere, University of Amsterdam, “Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft”, vol. 3, n. 2, 2008; I. Niehaus, “Historia”, vol. 52, n. 2, 2007, pp. 324-326, issn 0018229X. Quoted by : Terence Ranger, 2007, Scotland Yard in the Bush: Medicine Murders, Child Witches and the Construction of the Occult: A Literature Review, “Africa”, 77, pp 272-283 doi:10.3366/afr.2007.77.2.272; G. Sabar, Witchcraft and Concepts of Evil amongst African Migrant Workers in Israel, “Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des études africaines”, vol. 44, n. I, 2010, pp. 110-141; S. Kasule, Don’t Talk into my Talk’: Oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in Colonial Uganda, J. Currey, 2010, isbn 978-1-84701-014-8.

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS ON INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
5) 1994, Kazakhstan: Political and Strategic Perspectives on its Relations with China, “Labirinth”, Central Asian Quarterly, Central Asia Research Forum, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol. 1, n. 3, London.
6) 1996, ENI on Caspian oil “Central Asia Newsfile”, Central Asia Research Forum, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 4, n. 3 (41), London.
7) 1996, The source of Spice: Europe, Oman and Zanzibar during the Nineteenth Century, ARAM (Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies), Trade Routes in the Near East & Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula, vol. 8: 1&2, Leuven, pp. 243-251.
8) 1997, Little known Aspects of the History of Muscat and Zanzibar during the first half of the 19th century, Proceedings of The Seminar for Arabian Studies, The Society for Arabian Studies, n. 27, London, pp. 193-198.
9) 1999, Religion and Trade in the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar in the 1800s, Regional Tanzania, ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World) Newsletter, n. 3, Leiden, pp. 1-6. A rated journal.
10) 2000, Saiyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu-Sa’idi of Oman (1806-1856) and his relationships with Europe, Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula, ARAM XI International Conference, vols. 11-12, Leuven, pp. 171-180. 
11) 2001, Trade and Religion in Zanzibar and East Africa, DAVO Nachrichten, n. 13, Mainz, feb., pp. 8-25.
12) 2002, Historical and Political Links between Gwadar and Muscat through Nineteenth Century’s Testimonies, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (PSAS), The Society for Arabian Studies, London, n. 32, pp. 281-286.
13) 2003, The Western Indian Ocean as a Cultural Corridor. Makran, Oman and Zanzibar through British Nineteenth Century’s Accounts and Reports, MESA Bulletin, USA, n. 37, pp. 20-49. A rated Journal.
14) 2005, Some Thoughts on the Magical Practice of the Zār along the Red Sea in the Sudan, People of the Red Sea, Proceedings of the Red Sea Project II held in the British Museum October 2004, J. Starkey (Ed.), B.A.R. International Series 1395, Oxford, pp. 157-161.
15) 2006, The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during the XIX century, “African & Asian Studies”, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, vol. 5, n. 3-4, pp. 347-370. SCOPUS - A rated Journal.
16) 2007, The Baluch Role in the Persian Gulf during the 19th and 20th centuries, “Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East”, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 27, n. 2, pp. 384-396. SCOPUS - A rated Journal.
17) 2009, The Tupak of the Jemadar, Notes on the Baluch presence along the Swahili Coast during the nineteenth century, “UTAFITI”, Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania, vol. 7, n. 2, pp. 104-116, ISSN: 0856-096X ISSN: 0251-2963. A rated Journal.
18) 2008, The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during the XIX Century, in S. de Silva & J.P. Angenot (Eds.), Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 81-106, ISSN 1569-2094; E-ISSN 1569-2108.
Reviewed by A. Major, “Contemporary South Asia”, vol. 17, n. 3, pp. 336-8. A rated Journal.

PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL BOOKS CHAPTERS
19) 2006, Notes on magical practices in Zanzibar and Pemba. The role of the Waganga during colonial times, in B. Nicolini (Ed.), Studies in Magic, Witchcraft, War and Peace in Africa: 19th and 20th Century, New York, Mellen Press, pp. 109-125, ISBN 9780773457270.
20) 2008, A Glimpse to Indian Merchant Communities in Zanzibar during 1800: the Topan Family through British Archive Sources, K.K. Prasad & J.P. Angenot (Eds.), TADIA The African Diaspora in Asia: Explorations on a Less Known Fact. Papers Presented at the First International Conference on TADIA in Panaji, Goa in January 2006, Bangalore, Jana Jagrati Prakashana, pp. 579-592, ISBN 9788190673648.
21) 2008, Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean during the 19th century: the role of Baloch Mercenaries, in C. Jahani, P. Titus, A. Korn (Eds.), The Baloch and Others: Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan, Wiesbaden, Reichert, ISBN 9783895005916, pp. 327-344. Creation of a new map of historical routes.
22) 2009, The Myth of the Sultans in the Western Indian Ocean during the 19th century: A New Hypothesis, Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures, Indian Ocean: Cultures in Contact, “African & Asian Studies”, vol. 8, n. 3, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 239-287, ISBN 9789004-162914. SCOPUS - A rated Journal.
23) 2010, The Indian Ocean: A Cultural Bow, in H. Alsudairy, E. Maestri, B. Nicolini, Communication with the ‘Other’. Arab Dimensions, Cultural Mediation and Bows, Crissma Working Papers, n. 19, Milan, Educatt, pp. 46-67.
2014, The Role of the Baluch in the Persian Gulf, 19th and 20th Centuries, in H. Potter (Ed.), The Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History, Gulf2000, Columbia University, New York, forthcoming. 
2013, Re-reading the role of Oman within its International Trade Relations from 16th to the 19th centuries, in S. Wippel (Ed.), Regionalizing Oman, Springer Science, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

PEER REVIEWED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
24) 1997, with Prof. L. Mosca, Università “Federico II Napoli”: Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean, in, J.P. Rodriguez (Ed.), Chronology of World Slavery, Santa Barbara, CA., ABC-CLIO.
25) 2005, entries: Afghanistan e Baluchis/Balochis, Encyclopedia of The World’s Minorities, Ed.: C. Skutsch, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, New York, 3 vols., pp. 3.
26) 2007, entries: Ra’s al-Khayma; Hadramawt; Sharjah, Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern World, Oxford University Press, New York.  
27) 2008, entries: Mazrui Dynasty; Mahdi Rebellion, Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and  Culture , Ed. Carole E. Boyce-Davies, 3 vols. , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara,  ISBN 9781851097005, 3 Vols., Vol. 2, pp. 644-5.

INTERNATIONAL BOOKS REVIEWS
1996, H. Malik (Ed.), Central Asia. Its Strategic Importance and Future Prospects, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
1996, B.F. Manz (Ed.), Central Asia in its Historical Perspective, Harvard University Russian Research Center, Boulder, CO., 1994, Testi e prestesti, “Relazioni Internazionali”, Anno LX (ix nuova serie), Milan.
1996, P. Risso, Merchants & Faith. Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1995, MESA Bulletin, vol. 30, USA.
1997, S.M. Al-Qasimi, Les Relations entre Oman et la France (1715-1905), Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris, 1995, MESA Bulletin, vol. 31, USA.
1998, J. Balfour-Paul, Indigo in the Arab World, Curzon, Richmond, 1997, MESA Bulletin, vol. 32, USA.
1998, R. Redaelli, The Father’s Bow. The Khanate of Kalat and British India (19th- 20th century), Manent, Firenze, 1997, MESA Bulletin, vol. 32, USA.
2001, U. Freitag & W.G. Clarence-Smith (Eds.), Hadrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s, Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 1997, MESA Bulletin, vol. 35, USA.
2005, S. Bono, Lumi e Corsari. Europa e Maghreb nel Settecento, Perugia, Morlacchi, MESA Bulletin, Vol. 39, USA, pp. 222-3.
2006, D. Agius, Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman The People of the Dhow, London, MESA Bulletin, Vol. 40, USA.
2006, F. Cresti, (Ed.), La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico, Milan, 2006, MESA Bulletin, Vol. 40, USA.
2008, A. Villiers, Sons of Sindbad, Arabian Publishing, London, 2006, MESA Bulletin, Vol. 41, USA, pp. 222-223.
2009, Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya, The Portuguese in the East. A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire, Tauris Academic Studies, London New York, 2008, MESA Bulletin vol. 43/1.

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