Professor at the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ- Department of Political Science.).
PhD in History (islamic classical civilization and political structure) Sociologist, Jornalist and Historian.
In the past decades I worked as a correspondent for several latin-american and african newspapers, magazines and radios and was the editor of the latin-american monthly magazine “Third World” (“Cadernos do Terceiro Mundo / “Cuadernos del Tercer Mundo”).