أولجا فيرلاتو

Olga Verlato is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research explores the history of language ideology and multilingualism in modern Egypt, at the intersection of imperialism, Mediterranean migration, and nationalist politics. She has also written about early modern Arabic printing in the Italian peninsula during the Renaissance, social infrastructures and mobility in the nineteenth century through the study of Egyptian popular songs, and the history of Italian schools in Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century.