Vanessa Chamma

Brazilian, descendant of Lebanese Arabs. In fact, many of the events during my career took me to the Middle East. Arab culture (cuisine, language and dance) was always present through my strong paternal blood ties. However, what really contributed to my studies were international trips to Syria and Jordan in 2001, and to Lebanon in 2006, when the armed conflict between Hezbollah and Israel broke out. After a few years, I enrolled in the undergraduate course in International Relations and participated in the Scientific Initiation Program, where I researched “The Foreign Policy of Hamas”, whose scientific article was published by Revista Fronteira (PUC/Minas), on September 8, 2016. The final project, entitled “Hezbollah after 2006: Strengthening or Weakening?”, resulted in another scientific article entitled “Strengthening of Hezbollah after the 2006 War”, also published by Revista Fronteira, on 08/16/2018. I then began a vast and detailed research on Islamic historiography, which gave rise to the book “The Islamists: Pre-Islamic Arabia to the Ottoman Empire”.