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Chiara Fontana
University of Bologna
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +39-3802088385
Via Filippo Di Giovanni 81
Palermo Italy 90146
Italy
Discipline
Linguistics
Sub Areas
Arabic
Maghreb Studies
Arab Studies
Comparative
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Sociolinguistics
All Time Periods
Cultural Studies
Ethnography
Ethnomusicology
Folklore/Folklife
Identity/Representation
Theater
Theory
Islamic Thought
Persian
Music
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Tunisia
Libya
Maghreb
Morocco
Mediterranean Countries
Egypt
Algeria
All Middle East
Islamic World
Specialties
Arabic Rhetoric And Prosody
Arabic Literary Studies
Philology, Prgmatics, Cognitive Studies
Languages
Italian (native)
Arabic (fluent)
English (advanced)
Tunisian (fluent)
Moroccan (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Latin (advanced)
Greek (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Italian Institute of Oriental Studies ISO | Sapienza University of Rome
MA (Hons) | 2014 | School of Humanities and Cultural Heritage | University of Palermo
BA | 2012 | School of Humanities and Cultural Heritage | University of Palermo
Abstracts
"Notes on Literary Artisans in 9th-10th-century Baghdad" The Name of the Key: Al-Sakkākī’s Literary Craftsmanship and Pragmatic Poetics in Miftāḥ al-ʽUlūm Farewell Beauty: Ibn al-Muʽtazz’s (d. 908) Political Manifesto in Fuṣūl al-Tamāthīl fī Tabāshīr al-Surūr