Giuseppe Cecere

Giuseppe Cecere is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (History and Philology) from the University of Florence (2007). 

Since 29 April 2024 he is the Coordinator of the CAI-IIc. Italian Archaeological Centre at the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo.

He was Fellow Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the IFAO (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale) in Cairo from 2010 to 2014. His researches focus on Sufi “presence” in the multicultural and multi-religious context of the Egyptian society, mainly in the Mamluk era and in contemporary times.