Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Università degli Studi “Gabriele d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara
Research expertise
Arabic literary production from the nineteenth century to present.
Contributions
Individus
Pratiques
Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability)
The encounter between East and West from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards is considered as one of the historical events that fostered the cultural Arab Renaissance and led to the Arab discovery of European sociability.