Co-host
Serena Tolino
Serena is Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and co-director of the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies at the University of Bern. Before moving to Bern, she was assistant professor at the University of Hamburg, post-doc at the University of Zurich and visiting fellow at the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She studied in Naples, Halle and Cairo. Her main research interests include history of gender, sexuality and LGBTQI+ rights in the Middle East, Islamic law, history of the Middle East.