Youssef Alvarenga Cherem

Specialist in Islam and the MIddle East. PhD (2010) and MA (2006) in Social Anthropology by the State University of Campinas. Major in International Relations (PUC-MG, 2003). Professor of Islamic Art at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Visiting fellow, Tel Aviv University (2018); Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris (Sciences-Po, 1999); Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, 1996-97). Main areas of interest and research: Islam, political Islam, salafism, International Relations of the Middle East; anthropology of religion; religious studies; Christianity in the Middle East; Lebanon; Iran. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)