Lorenzo Kamel, PhD Hab associate professor, is a Marie Curie historian at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Advance Studies. He also is a Senior Fellow at IAI and an Associate at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Kamel has published seven books on Med and Middle Eastern affairs, including Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times, which was awarded 1st prize in the 2016 “Palestine Book Awards".