Estella Carpi (PhD) is a social anthropologist primarily concerned with how societies respond to crisis and crisis management. Her work primarily revolves around the identity politics of humanitarianism and forced displacement in the Arab majority Levant and Turkey. She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in Australia (2015), with a project on humanitarian aid provision in contemporary Lebanon. Between 2017 and 2022, Estella has been a Research Associate in the Migration Research Unit (Department of Geography) at University College London, where she has worked on South-South humanitarianism. Between 2016 and 2017, she has been a Research Associate in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) and a Humanitarian Affairs Advisor at Save the Children UK, working on the urban-humanitarian nexus. In 2016, she was awarded the "Mobility, Displacement, and Forced Migration in the Middle East" research grant from the Centre for International and Regional Studies (Georgetown University-Qatar), to undertake a study on the border politics of livelihoods in southern Turkey and northern Lebanon. Estella has lectured extensively in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Università degli Studi di Milano and the University of New South Wales), in the Sociology of Human Rights, Social Protest, and Social Inequality (The University of Sydney), and in Humanitarian Studies (University of Turin and University of Pisa). After studying Arabic in Milan and Damascus (2002-2008), she worked in several academic and research institutions in the Middle Eastern region, such as the New York University of Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Trends Research and Advisory (UAE), UN-Habitat Lebanon, the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon Support, UNDP-Egypt (Cairo), and the International Development Research Centre (Cairo). Her work has been published in several international academic journals, such as "Third World Quarterly", the "Journal of Refugee Studies", and "Middle East Critique". She is the author of "Specchi Scomodi. Etnografia delle Migrazioni Forzate nel Libano Contemporaneo", published with Mimesis (in Italian).

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