Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World

Director profile

Professor Frédéric Volpi is the Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.

Frédéric Volpi

He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000. Before coming to Edinburgh in 2018, he was as a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He also taught and researched at Sussex University, Bristol University, and Sciences Po., Paris.

Prof. Volpi is interested in the processes of democratization and authoritarianism in the contemporary Muslim world, in the role of Islamist actors in social and political mobilizations, in the construction of the discourse of political Islam, and in the contemporary regional and transnational dynamics of North Africa and the Mediterranean region

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Contact Professor Volpi

e. frederic.volpi@ed.ac.uk

t. 0131 650 4165