Ahmed Samy Lotf is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.

Ahmed’s research focus on the learning process of revolutionary movements while facing several types of state violence in the regional context of the Arab world (i.e., Algeria & Sudan). He is examining of collective/individual reactions of actors within those movements along with taking in consideration political psychology and historic context of those movements. Professionally, he has worked as a researcher in Saint Joseph university in Lebanon, policy analyst in USAID Egypt, Field interpreter in NGO in Lesvos Greece and different positions in IOs and NGOs in different countries (Lebanon, France, Egypt, Greece and Turkey).

Academically, before joining the PhD program in SNS, Ahmed has earned two master’s degrees in subjects related to political sciences. The first MA degree was in International Relations & Diplomacy from the American Graduate School in Paris. He graduated (Honors) with a thesis on international order and new types of diplomacy (case study: the Arctic Council). Ahmed has done his second MA degree in Democracy and Human Rights in Saint Joseph University in Lebanon as part of an international program called Global Campus for Human Rights and Democracy. In the regional program of this program, Ahmed had studied in Lebanon and Morocco and done his master thesis analyzing the effects of the EU Foreign Policy on Refugees Migration crisis (case study: EU-Turkey Statement).

Research interests:

Social movements, Revolutionary movements, Repertoires and Learning of movements, Political violence, Human Rights, Diplomacy and Migration.