Marco Miotto

Marco Miotto, currently Assistant Professor in the History of the Islamic World, was born in Padua, Italy.  He studied Islamic history at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, after which he obtained an MA in Medieval and Byzantine History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, followed by a Ph.D, also from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which he was awarded in 2007, on the subject of The conflict between Fatimid Caliphate and Byzantine Empire in Near East and the role of Italian cities in the region in 10th and 11th centuries.
He taught at the Rethymno campus of the University of Crete as an Adjunct Lecturer, in the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace and at the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, where he taught a course at post-graduate level on the medieval and modern history of the Black Sea region, before joining the regular teaching and research staff of the Department of History and Ethnology in 2013. He has also taught the MA program, Studies in Southeastern Europe, of the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace. 
He has published books on the History of the Near East, on the Islamic conquest of Syria and on the conflict between Byzantium and the Fatimid caliphate and place of Italian cities in this during the 10th and 11th centuries, as well as numerous papers on the relations among Byzantines, Venice and other cities and the Arabs.
His research interests include: Islamic history and historiography, the history of the Mediterranean world, Byzantine-Islamic relations, the history of the Arabic language, the pre-Islamic history of the Arab world, Arab nationalism, military history.