Dr. Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he works on Islamism and liberal Islam, with a focus on Europe and the MENA region. He is also a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels.
Tommaso holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Constitutional Law from Sant’anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, as well as a Master of Arts in Middle East, Islamic Studies, and Arabic from the American University of Paris and Cairo, and a Master’s Degree in Law from Sant’anna School in Pisa.
He is the author of the book Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights: Sexual Minorities and Freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia, published by Routledge.
Twitter: @TommasoVirgili_