
Altea Pericoli
Researcher

Dr. Altea Pericoli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in geopolitics and regional cooperation at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. She is interested in humanitarian aid implemented by Gulf donors in conflict zones and the use of Islamic social welfare instruments for addressing social protection and economic empowerment in protracted crises.
Altea Pericoli obtained her PhD in Institutions and Policies in July 2023 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and she conducted many visiting periods at Vienna University, Durham University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. In 2023, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the European University Institute and the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies.
In July 2023, she obtained the BRISMES Award “Early Career Development Scholarship” to transform her PhD thesis into a monograph entitled “Islam and Politics in Humanitarianism” with a university press.
Publications
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Norms and Dependency in regional aid dynamics : the Gulf States in the Horn of Africa
Altea Pericoli
(2025)
Conference paper: abstractUnderstanding Gulf States’ Foreign Aid: A Conceptual Framework
Altea Pericoli
(2025) The International Spectator
Journal articleIslamic Instruments for Refugee Financing: The IsDB and UNHCR Collaborative Approach
Altea Pericoli
(2025) Global Policy, 16 p.46-56
Journal articleUNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund in Bangladesh : Sustainable religious funds for stateless refugees
Altea Pericoli
(2025) Islamic Finance and Sustainable Development : The Water, Food, Energy, and Climate Nexus , p.14-28
Book chapterForeign Aid, Identities and Interests: Qatar and the UAE in Sudan
Federico Donelli, Altea Pericoli
(2024) The International Spectator
Journal articleIslamic Humanitarianism and Foreign Aid: Gulf States’ Aid in Conflict Zones
Altea Pericoli
(2024) Durham Middle East Papers
Working paperHumanitarian Exceptionalism and the Quest for Post-War Reconstruction in the Gaza Strip
Altea Pericoli
(2024) CMES Regional Outlook
Web publicationOvercoming obstacles in regional crises : The role of the OIC and IsDB in the MENA Region
Altea Pericoli
(2024) Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government
Book chapterQatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery : top-down strategies of foreign aid
Altea Pericoli
(2024) Third World Quarterly, 45 p.2305-2322
Journal articleQatar's foreign aid and political strategies in the Horn of Africa: The case of Somalia
Altea Pericoli, Federico Donelli
(2024) Global Policy, 15
Journal articleCharity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism
Altea Pericoli
(2023) Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society
ReviewThe use of zakat in the pandemic response : the case of Islamic Relief and BAZNAS in Indonesia
Altea Pericoli
(2022) Third World Quarterly, 44 p.405-422
Journal articleIslamic philanthropy and Islamic social finance in humanitarian action : Innovation, legitimacy, and risk
Kaja Borchgrevink, Altea Pericoli, Arne Strand
(2022)
Web publicationThe Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank : The regional dimension of humanitarian diplomacy
Altea Pericoli
(2021)
Web publicationMigration Changes and Integration Challenges in the Moroccan Case
Altea Pericoli
(2021) Politics of Citizenship and Migration
Book chapter