Michelangelo Guida Professor, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University

Michelangelo Guida earned his B.A. in Political Science, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and history, and his Ph.D. in 2005 on Turkish Islamism in the early 19th century from Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy. He also holds an M.A. in Turkish Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, completed in 2002. Currently, he is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University. In 2021, he published Turkish Politics: Making Sense of Nation, Identities, and Ideologies (Ankara, Orion). Dr. Guida has also published numerous articles on electoral behaviors, Turkish Islamist intellectuals, and the evolution of political ideas.