Author profile: Lorenzo Kamel

Lorenzo Kamel teaches Global History at the University of Turin. He is also the director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali’s Research Studies and a faculty member of the PhD programme in Global History of Empires. Among his books are The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities (Edinburgh UP) and Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (I.B. Tauris). 

Opinion – On and Beyond Whataboutism in the Russia-Ukraine War

Lorenzo Kamel • Mar 6 2022 • Articles

Russia’s invasion of a sovereign country, Ukraine, and exporting democracy as the US did in Iraq in 2003 are two illegal and immoral sides of the same coin.

The Appropriation of ‘Curiosity’

Lorenzo Kamel • Oct 12 2021 • Articles

Progress comes by opposing the process by which non-Western peoples are viewed as passive, weak and disinterested, while enabling the retrieval of different ways of knowing and understanding the epistemologies of the South.

The Palestinian Territories and The (Self)legitimizazion of the Settlements

Lorenzo Kamel • Feb 14 2014 • Articles

It is often claimed that Article 80 of the UN Charter preserves Israel’s right to establish settlements. This problematic approach requires a better public understanding.

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