Elena Chiti

Elena Chiti is a cultural historian of the Middle East, specialized in contemporary Egypt, and a literary translator from Arabic into Italian. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo and a research associate at Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes.

The criminal, the victim, the policeman, the judge

“I do not know if Carlo Ginzburg would agree, but I came to evaluate fear as a precious tool for fieldwork in authoritarian contexts.”

By Mona Abaza and Elena Chiti

/ 28 Jun 2017