Pietro Stefanini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a Politics and International Relations doctoral scholarship. His primary research interests are in the international politics of humanitarianism, empire and settler colonialism, and anti-colonial resistance. Some of his academic work has been published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Participation and Conflict, and by the American University in Cairo Press. He has written shorter pieces for the Legal Agenda and Middle East Eye, and has appeared as a commentator on Al Jazeera TV. Before moving to the UK to begin his tertiary education, he grew up between Bologna, Damascus and Occupied Jerusalem.