Nicolini Beatrice (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy)

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Nicolini Beatrice
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart 
Faculty of Political Sciences
Largo Gemelli, 1
20123
Milano
Italy

phone:     39-(0)-2-7234-3728
fax:       39-(0)-2-7234-3649
e-mail:    beatrice.nicolini@unicatt.it


Education

1978, German Language Degree, Salzburg Universitt, Austria.
1979, American Language and Literature Degree, Berkeley University, 
Berkeley, CA., USA.
1981, German Language and Literature Degree, Heidelberg Universitt, 
Heidelberg, Germany.
1983, Degree in International Relations and Comparative Government, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston, MASS., USA.
1989, Laurea Degree in Political Sciences, Catholic University of the 
Sacred Heart, Milan. 
1995, PhD Doctorate in History of Africa, Faculty of Political Sciences, 
University of Siena. 
1996, Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Political Sciences, Catholic University 
of the Sacred Heart, Milan. 
1999, winner of Check of Research in History of Africa, Dept. of Political 
Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred 
Heart, Milan. 
2001, Assistant Professor in History and Istitutions of Africa, History 
and Institutions of Afro-Asian Countries, Faculty of Political Sciences, 
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
2006, Chair of History and Institutions of Africa, History and 
Institutions of Afro-Asian Countries, Faculty of Political Sciences, 
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.


Recent scientific research and activities

1989, member of The Italian Historical, Anthropological, Ecological and 
Archaeological Mission in Makran and Kharan, which, since 1986, has been 
operating in Pakistan (Baluchistan: Makran, Districts of Gwadar, Turbat 
and Panjgur; Director: Prof. V.F. Piacentini, with Official Licence of the 
Government of Pakistan), with tasks of historical and archival research: 
London, S.O.A.S., University of London, The British Library, The India 
Office Library and Records, The Royal Society of Asian Affairs, The Royal 
Geographical Society, The Public Record Office, Kew.

2000, contacts for research with Dr. Hassan Naboodah, Dir. Zayed Centre, 
Al-Ain, U.A.E.
2000, research in Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), 
Geographisches Institut, J. Götebergs Universitet, Mainz, Germany.
2001, research in Centre of Islamwissenschaft, Dir.: Prof. Roman Loimeier, 
Bayreuth University, Germany.
2002, official invitation to European Social Science History Conference, 
International Institute of Social History, Le Hague, The Netherlands.
2002, official invitation by Prof. Edward Alpers to International 
Conference: Cultural Exchange and Transformation in the Indian Ocean 
World, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 3-9 April and research at Fowler 
Centre of African Studies.
2002, official invitation to Gulf Economic Forum (GEF), Muscat, Sultanate 
of Oman, 1-3 November.
2003, active participation to the International Conference: Milano con 
l.Africa. Il ruolo delle citt nei progetti di cooperazione, Milan, 10-11 
April. 
2003, active participation to the International Conference: La Libia nella 
storia del Mediterraneo ISIAO, Roma, 12-13 May.
2003, participation to the Seminar: Social Dynamics in Mughal India Sufis, 
Warriors, Merchants and Peasants, organised by D.H.A. Kolff, Leiden 
University, 8 October.
2003, official invitation by Prof. R.J. Barendse to International 
Workshop: Country Trade and European Empire in the Arabian Seas: 
XVII-XVIII Centuries, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden 
University, The Netherlands, 9-11 October, 2003.
2004, institutional invitation to the 3rd International Conference on 
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, 25-27 January, 
American University of Sharjah, U.A.E.
2004, official invitation to the Conference: Slave Routes and Oral 
Tradition in Southeastern Africa, UNESCO Project, Universidade E. 
Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 16-18 March.
2004, official invitation by The London School of Economics and Political 
Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology, Dr. Edward Simpson, to participating to 
the Workshop: .Struggling with history. Anthropological approaches to 
knowledge and practice in the western Indian Ocean, University of St. 
Andrews, 3-4, April.
2004, organization and assistance to the Conference: The Role of 
Chistianity in the Middle East, Prof. S. Abouzayd, Oriental Institute, 
Oxford University, Dept. and Faculty of Political Sciences, Catholic 
University, Milan, 25, May.
2004, official invitation to: The Persian Gulf in History, Gulf/2000 
Conference, Columbia University - New York, Centre of World Dialogue 
Nicosia, Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 October.
2004, official invitation to The Red Sea Project Phase II: The Red Sea 
People, The Society for Arabian Studies, The British Museum, London, 
29-30, October.
2005, official invitation to the ZIFF Conference 2005: Monsoons & 
Migrations; Unleashing Dhow Synergies, 2-9 July, 2005, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2005, official invitation to the Third International Conference Pluralism 
in Balochistan, Uppsala University, Sweden, 18-21 August.
2005, official invitation to the UNESCO-TADIA International Conference: 
The African Diaspora in Asia, Goa, India, 9-16 January, 2006.
2006, official invitation to The Global Gulf Conference, Exeter 
University, UK., July.
2006, official invitation to the International Conference: Maritime 
Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative 
Perspectives, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, British Museum & 
Zanzibar Department of Archives, Museums and Antiquities Maritime Heritage 
Conference, Zanzibar, Tanzania, July.
2006, official invitation to the International Workshop Culture & Commerce 
in the Western Indian Ocean, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 
September.
2007, official invitation to Indian Ocean: Cultures in Contact, SOAS, 
University of London, 11 July, 2007.
2007 AEGIS Conference, University of Leiden, July.


Recent field work and foreign research missions

2002, official invitation to Gulf Economic Forum, Muscat, 1-3 November.
United Arab Emirates:
2000, field work carried on in Dubai, Sharjah, Al-Ain. Research in Juma 
Al-Majid Center, Dir.: Dr. Obaid bin Ali Al-Muhairi, Dubai.
2004, research carried out in the American University Library of Sharjah.
Mozambique:
2004, participation to the Conference: Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in 
Southeastern Africa, UNESCO Slave Routes Project, Universidade E. 
Mondlane, Maputo, 16-22 March. Lecture at the E. Mondlane University. 
Field work in Maputo area.
India
2006, research conducted in occasion of the International Conference: The 
African Diaspora in Asia, Goa and Mumbai.


Educational experience

Since academic year 1990/91, Teaching Assistant to the Chair of History 
and Institutions of the Muslim Countries and History and Institutions of 
Afro-Asian Countries, Faculty of Political Science, Catholic University of 
the Sacred Heart, Milan.


Memberships

Member of Tadia/UNESCO .Slave Route Project..
Member of Association of Middle Eastern Studies, SESAMO, President, Prof. 
F. Cresti.
Member of The Society for Arabian Studies, London, UK.
Member of Associazione di Studi Extraeuropei, ASE, Dept. of Political 
Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy.
Member of Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA, USA.
Member of Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies, USA.
Member of Orientalia/Africana (web research and contacts on Asian presence 
in East Africa).
Member of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), an Organization of 
the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of 
India, New Dehli, President, Krishan Kant, Vice President of India.
Member of Istituto Italiano per l.Africa e l.Oriente, ISIAO, Rome, Italy.
Member of the Honorary Board of Trustees for Eastern Studies, Web Forum.
Member of African Studies Association, USA.
Member of International Research Network on Muslims in Lusophone Spaces.


Publications with international referee 

Monographs

2004, Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the 
Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), "Islam in Africa" series edited by J. 
Hunwick & K. Vikor, Vol. 3.  Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The 
Netherlands.


International Editor 

2006, Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: 19th and 20th 
centuries, E. Mellen Press, Lampeter, UK., pp. 400.


Essays

1996, The source of Spice: Europe, Oman and Zanzibar during the Nineteenth 
Century, ARAM (Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies), Trade Routes in the 
Near East & Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula, Vol. 8: 1&2, 
Leuven, pp. 243-251.

1997, Little known Aspects of the History of Muscat and Zanzibar during 
the first half of the 19th century, Proceedings of The Seminar for Arabian 
Studies, The Society for Arabian Studies, n. 27, London, pp. 193-198.

1999, Religion and Trade in the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar in the 1800s, 
Regional Tanzania, ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in 
the Modern World) Newsletter, n. 3, Leiden, pp. 1-6.

2000, Saiyid Sa.id bin Sultan Al Bu-Sa.idi of Oman (1806-1856) and his 
relationships with Europe, Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula, 
ARAM XI International Conference, Voll. 11-12, Leuven, pp. 171-180. 

2002, Historical and Political Links between Gwadar and Muscat through 
Nineteenth Century.s Testimonies, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian 
Studies (PSAS), The Society for Arabian Studies, London, n. 32, pp. 
281-286.

2003, The Western Indian Ocean as a Cultural Corridor. Makran, Oman and 
Zanzibar through British Nineteenth Century.s Accounts and Reports, MESA 
Bulletin, USA, n. 37, pp. 20-49.

2005, Some Thoughts on the Magical Practice of the Z.r along the Red Sea 
in the Sudan, People of the Red Sea, Proceedings of the Red Sea Project II 
held in the British Museum october 2004, edited by J. Starkey, B.A.R. 
International Series 1395, Oxford, pp. 157-161.

2006, The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during 
the XIX century, .Journal of African & Asian Studies., Brill Academic 
Publishers, Leiden, vol. 5, no. 3-4, pp. 347-370.

2007 The Baluch role in the Persian Gulf during the 19th and 20th 
centuries, .Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle 
East., University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 27, n. 2, pp- 384-396.

2008, The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during 
the XIXTH Century, in S. de Silva Jayasuriya & J. P. Angenot, Uncovering 
the History of Africans in Asia, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 
81-106.

Publications

Monographs

1996, L'isola di Zanzibar. Storia e Strategia nell'Oceano Indiano 
(1799-1856), I.S.U., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 
Italy.  

1998, Jazirat Zanjibar. Al-Tarikh wa-l-Istraijia fi al-Muhit al-Hindi 
(1799-1856), translated by Nizar Aghri, Les Editions Dar An-Nahar, Beirut, 
Lebanon. 

2002, Il Sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciali e 
relazioni internazionali, "Il Politico e La Memoria," L'Harmattan-Italia, 
Torino. 


Selected articles

2000, "Vincenzo Maurizi e David Vatrin: due presenze italiane nell'oceano 
Indiano nel 1800," Africana, Pisa, pp. 127-134.

2001, "Trade and Religion in Zanzibar and East Africa," DAVO 
Nachrichten, n. 13, Mainz, February, pp. 8-25.

2002, "Zanzibar and East Africa. Interreligious and Intercultural 
Relations throughout History," Metodo, n. 18, Pisa, June, pp. 1-5.

2002, "Le isole di Zanzibar e Pemba," Africana, Pisa, VIII, pp.101-117.

2002, "Zanzibar nella prima metà del XIX secolo: terra, gruppi di 
potere e classi sociali," Zanzibar: storia e territorio, 'Storia Urbana', nn. 
98/99, Milan, pp. 97-117. 

2004, "L'Africa orientale subsahariana nel buio dell.odio e della 
violenza. Due casi-paese: Kenya e Repubblica Democratica del Congo," 
Quaderni Asiatici, Milan, n. 66, pp. 71-89.

2004, "Relazioni interculturali e interreligiose nell.Africa 
Sub-Sahariana: verso quale tipo di globalizzazione?," Quaderni Asiatici, 
n. 68, Milan, December, pp. 141-150.

2005, "L'Angola: il paese delle guerre, del .galo negro. e dei suoi 
fantasmi," Quaderni Asiatici, Milan, pp. 119-126.

2005, "Note e memorie sull'oceano Indiano (XVIII-XIX secolo), first part," 
Quaderni Asiatici, Milano, n. 70, pp. 77-105.

2005, "Note e memorie sull'oceano Indiano (VIII-XIX secolo)," Quaderni 
Asiatici, Milan, n. 71, second part, pp. 89-108.

2006  "Tanzania, Kenya, Il nuovo Scramble for Africa nel terzo millennio? 
Cina e Stati Uniti nel continente nero: case studies (2000-2006)," 
RIVISTA: 'Meridione. Sud e Nord nel Mondo,' Napoli, Edizioni.  
Scientifiche Italiane.


Encyclopedia voices

1999, with L. Mosca, Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean, in J.P. Rodriguez 
(Ed.), Chronology of World Slavery, Santa Barbara, CA., ABC-CLIO.

2005, entries: Baluchis/Balochis; Afghanistan, Encyclopedia of The World.s 
Minorities, Ed. by C. Skutsch, New York, Routledge, New York, refereed 
entries, 3 vols set, pp. 3.

2007, entries: Marzui Dynasty; The Mahdi Rebellion, Encyclopedia of World 
Slavery, USA.

2007, entries: Sharjah, Ras al-Khaymah, Hadramawt, Encyclopedia of the 
Modern World, Oxford University Press.