Diogo Bercito
I am a doctoral student researching Arab migration to Brazil (1870-1930).
Before I arrived at Georgetown, I worked as a journalist in the Middle East. I lived in Rabat, Jerusalem, Beirut, and Cairo. My work on the West Bank wall was part of the multimedia project that won the 2018 Rey de España Prize, awarded by the Spanish king to the best journalistic pieces in Spanish and Portuguese. I am also a fiction writer, and I recently published a novel on a Syrian migrant living in São Paulo during the early 1930s, "Vou Sumir Quando a Vela se Acabar." Moreover, I wrote the scripts for two graphic novels, "Remy" and "Rasga Mortalhas."