Marta Scaglioni holds a master degree in cultural and social anthropology. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in co-partenership with the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. She is specialized in North Africa, the Middle East, and Islamic societies in general. She carried out field research on Cairo shantytowns and processes of gentrification. Her current research area is North Africa with a focus on the regions at the border between Libya and Tunisia.
