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Working language: English (no translation)
In cooperation with the Department of Historical Studies, and the Department of Culture, Politics and Society - University of Turin
AGENDA
OPENING REMARKS
NICOLÒ RUSSO PEREZ, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
INPUT PANEL
Chair DANIELA HUBER, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
ROSITA DI PERI,University of Turin
A sectarianised pandemic: COVID-19 in Lebanon
ANAS EL GOMATI,Sadeq Institute
Covid-19 in Libya: Distraction, dissidence and diplomacy
YARA HAWARI,Al-Shabaka
COVID-19 in Palestine: A pandemic in the face of "Settler colonial erasure"
LORENZO KAMEL,University of Turin and IAI
Regional alignments and confrontations: COVID-19's impact in and beyond the Persian Gulf
AFRAH NASSER, Human Rights Watch
War and COVID in Yemen
SAJAD JIYAD, Independent political analyst, Baghdad
Struggling Iraq Faces Another Crisis in COVID-19