Giulia Cimini is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. Her research interests include political parties, security assistance, and environmental governance in the Middle East and North Africa. She authored Political Parties in Post-Uprising Tunisia and Morocco (Routledge 2023) and co-edited Political Islam Inside-Out (Routledge 2022). Among others, she published in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Contemporary Politics, and Middle Eastern Studies. Between 2019 and 2023, Giulia was the Principal Investigator of the research project "Security for Whom?" funded by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation. Since 2023, she has been the Scientific Responsible and Coordinator of the inter-departmental project "Go Green: A Trans-Mediterranean Approach to Climate Change" with the International University of Rabat, financed by the University of Bologna. Giulia is Associate Editor of the scientific journal Interdisciplinary Political Studies (IdPS).