Ahmed Samy Lotf is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. His research focuses on the learning process of revolutionary movements while facing several types of state repression. He examines collective/individual reactions of actors within those movements, their role of producing knowledge collective and individual within their surroundings to be used as knowledge inserted in future movements. Along with that, the research takes into consideration political psychology, social and historical contexts of those movements.

Dissertation research question and title : What and How do revolutionary movements learn from their past experiences and events? Examining the Revolutionary Learning Process using the Algerian Revolutionary Movement towards regime change.

Academically, before joining the PhD program in SNS, Ahmed 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) in 2016 with a thesis on international order and new types of diplomacy (case study: the Arctic Council). 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 and graduated in 2019. His degree was studied in both 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 of contention, learning processes, Algerian Movements, memory studies, authoritarianism, migration, and geopolitical relations