Professor of history at the University of Buenos Aires, has a master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from El Colegio de México, and a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. He was editor of the journal Cuadernos Americanos from 1997 to 2004, and since 2016. He is a researcher at the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CIALC) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies at the same institution. He has coordinated several books, written numerous journalistic and academic articles, given lectures and participated in conferences with presentations on classical studies, history and culture of Islam, relations between Islam and Latin America, Eurocentrism and history. He has directed and advised numerous undergraduate, master's and doctoral theses. Books (titles translated from original Spanish): The Shadow of Islam in the Conquest of America (Mexico: FCE-UNAM, 2004), Eurocriollismo, Globalization and Historiography in Latin America (in collaboration with Carlos Tur, Mexico: CIALC-UNAM, 2008), A Peripheral Orientalism: Our America and Islam (Mexico: CIALC-UNAM, 2012), Strange Presences in Our America (Mexico: UNAM, 2017), Discourses on Universal History in Creole America 1770-1850 (Mexico: CIALC-UNAM, 2021). From 2008 to 2015, he served as General Coordinator of the Mexican section of the Latin American Association of Asian and African Studies (ALADAA).
