Silvia Bruzzi (
silvia.bruzzi3@unibo.it) is adjunct lecturer at the University of Bologna where she teaches “Gender, Cultures and Conflicts in the Mediterranean Region.” She is also visiting research fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at the University of Bergen. Her research activities focus on gender, Islam and colonialism in Northeast Africa. Bruzzi has contributed in her field with publications such as “Una medicina per l’Anima: il ruolo delle figure femminili nelle confraternite islamiche,” in Irma Taddia – Beatrice Nicolini (a cura di), Il Corno d’Africa tra medicina, politica e storia, Novalogos, Roma, 2011; “Sainthood,” in The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, Oxford University Press, 2013 (forthcoming).
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