
Silvia Colombo is Senior Fellow in the Mediterranean and Middle East programme at IAI. She is an expert on Middle Eastern politics and in this capacity she is working on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, transatlantic relations in the Mediterranean and domestic and regional politics in the Arab World. Among her research interests there are also the relations between the European Union and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). She completed a traineeship at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London where she worked mainly on Syria and Iraq. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Florence Branch) and a Master's Degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She speaks Arabic fluently and has travelled extensively in the Middle Eastern region.
From Tectonic Shifts to Winds of Change in North Africa and the Middle East: Europe’s Role
Il governo Conte bis, la pandemia e la crisi del multilateralismo
Il governo Conte bis, la pandemia e la crisi del multilateralismo
Rethinking EU Leadership in the "Neighbourhood": Limits and Ambitions
Italia ed Europa di fronte alla crisi libica
Fostering a New Security Architecture in the Middle East
Gli italiani e l'Unione europea
Gli italiani e l'immigrazione
Collective Security and Multilateral Engagement in the Middle East: Pathways for EU Policy
Multipolarismo competitivo, problemi economici e dinamiche interne: Tunisia e Algeria tra resilienza e fragilità
- 22/01/2021 - press Institute for Security Studies - Colombo: Libya nurtures a fragile peace
- 23/06/2020 - press The New Arab - Colombo: Mega arms deal with Egyptian regime exposes Italy's 'hypocrisy' on rights abuses, destabilisation of Libya
- 23/06/2020 - press Eu Observer - Colombo: New Cairo activist case prompts wave of Italy demos
- 03/01/2020 - press RIA Novosti - Colombo:" L'uccisione di Solimani rappresenta un duro colpo per la coscienza degli iraniani"
- 12/04/2019 - press ISS Today: Colombo - Haftar's attack on Tripoli
- 28/02/2019 - press The Progressive Post - Colombo: Europe, Iran and the Middle East: squaring the circle of complexity
- 12/05/2018 - press Farhikhtegan - Colombo: Trump's decision opened a transatlantic gap with Europe
- 05/04/2018 - press Qantara.de - Colombo: The point of no return?
- 14/02/2018 - press The Security Times - Colombo & Tocci: (Tri)poli-sci. Squaring the triangle of security, migration and state-building in Libya
- 06/01/2018 - press Hurriyet Daily News - Colombo: EU-GCC relations and the risk of irrelevance
- 24/11/2017 - audio Cyprus News Digest - Colombo: The geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean
- 05/04/2017 - press Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe Blog - Judy Asks: Is Europe Powerless in the Middle East?
- 28/10/2016 - press World Politics Review - Colombo: History and Hydrocarbons Drive Italy’s Relations With North Africa
- 18/08/2016 - audio Al Arabiya - Colombo: foreign policies of the GCC countries
- 20/04/2016 - press ISS Today - Colombo: A turning point for Libya?
- 12/04/2016 - press Reuters - Colombo: Few options for Italy as it pressures Egypt over murdered student
- 06/04/2016 - press Africanews - Colombo: Libya: UN-backed govt struggling to ‘rule’ a divided Libya
- 06/04/2016 - press Daily Maverick - Colombo: Blow to Libya unity govt as Tripoli rival refuses to cede power
- 06/04/2016 - press ahramonline - Colombo: Blow to Libya unity govt as Tripoli rival refuses to cede power
- 06/04/2016 - press AFP - Colombo: Fayez al-Sarraj: novice politician trying to unite Libya