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Gianluca Parolin
Gianluca Parolin is professor of law at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London, where he also leads the Governance Programme. His interests revolve around the semiotics of law and its transformations. Taking Egypt as a case study, he engages with two particular moments: the second quarter of the nineteenth century with its new semiotics for law and governance (as emerging from both printed and manuscript sources) and the contemporary articulations of different semiotics of law in popular culture (Ramadan and non-Ramadan TV series). Previously, he worked on citizenship, sharia provisions in constitutions, dynamics of constitution-writing, institutional design and unintended consequences of constitutions in the region (in the Gulf in particular). His first monograph was Citizenship in the Arab World (Amsterdam University Press, 2009), and he is now working on a new book on the law’s imaginaire in Egyptian television drama.
Contact: Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN, UK.