Dr. Danilo Marino Associate Researcher Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften E-Mail danilo.marino@faculty.unibe.ch Postal Address University of Bern Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies SACS Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern
Academic career Since February 2023 – Associated researcher, Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern 2018-2019 – Post-Doc at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies 2015 – Ph.D. in “Langues, cultures et sociétés du monde”, Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris and “Comparative Literatures”, University of Naples “L’Orientale” 2010-2015 – Joint doctoral program, Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) Paris and University of Naples “L’Orientale” 2010-2013 – Research in Cairo 2009 – MA in “Comparative Literatures” of University of Naples “L’Orientale” 2009 – Fellowship at the University of Cairo 2008-2009 – Research and Study in Damascus 2006 – BA in “Mediterranean Studies” of University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Research interests Gender and Masculinities Studies Pre-modern Islamic Ethics Arabic literature and poetry from the Mamlūk period (1250-1517) Literature of intoxication
Current research Models of Masculinities in Contemporary Arab Gulf societies Mapping murūʾa in pre-modern Arab culture
Publications Crossing the Boundaries: Hashish Intoxication in Pre-modern Arabic Literature and Law, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 17 (2022), pp. 99-121. Hashish and Homoerotic Desire in Pre-Modern Arab Society, in Sexual Norms in the Arab World. Desire and Transgression in Islamic Cultures, Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino (eds.), London: I. B. Tauris, 2021, pp. 69-86. Muhammad Salah or the Aesthetic of Ordinary Middle East Masculinities, in the Blog of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen (SGMOIK)/Société Suisse Moyen-Orient et Civilisation Islamique (SSMOCI), 2021 https://www.sagw.ch/sgmoik/archiv/blog/details/news/muhammad-salah-or-the-aesthetic-of-ordinary-middle-east-masculinities Le plaisir de l'ivresse. Haschich et littérature homoérotique dans l'époque mamelouke, in Words of Desire: The Language of Arabic Erotica and its Translations, Frédéric Lagrange and Claire Savina (eds.), Paris: Diacritiques Editions, 2020, pp. 288-325. Hashish and Food: Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises, in Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyong, Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser and Bilal Orfali (eds.), Leiden: Brill 2019, pp. 190-213. L’humour dans l'Égypte mamelouke. Le Nuzhat al-nufūs wa-muḍḥik al-ʿabūs d'Ibn Sūdūn al-Bašbuġāwī, in Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond - Études arabes et islamiques en Europe et au-delà, Maurus Reinkowski, Monika Winet and Sevinç Yasargil (eds.). Proceedings of the 26th Congress of Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI), Basel 2012, Leuven-Paris-Bristol: Peeters, 2016, pp. 143-155. Il Corano nella letteratura araba premoderna: inimitabilità, citazione, influenza e trasformazione. Qualche osservazione sulla letteratura umoristica, Studium 4 (July-August 2016), pp. 494-529. Raconter l’ivresse à l’époque mamelouke. Les mangeurs de haschich comme motif littéraire, Annales Islamologiques 49 (2015), pp. 55-80. Il Cairo, tra realismo e allegoria nella narrativa di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ e ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī, in Landscapes and Mindscapes. Metodologie di ricerca, percorsi geo-centrati e poetiche dello spazio in una prospettiva comparata, Stefania De Lucia, Carmen Gallo and Danilo Marino (eds.), Napoli: Marchesi Editore, 2014, pp. 35-50. Le forme della censura religiosa nell’Egitto moderno. Il caso di Awlād Ḥāratinā (1959) di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ (1911-2006), Between 2, no. 3 (May 2012), http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/384/393.
