Catarina Belo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is a specialist in medieval Islamic philosophy, in particular Avicenna and Averroës. Other interests include medieval Islamic theology and medieval Christian philosophy, especially Aquinas. She has also conducted research on German Idealism, in particular Hegel’s philosophy. In addition, she has studied the intersection between philosophy and religion in the Middle Ages, and in Hegel’s works. She is the author of Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes (Brill, 2007), and Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion (Ashgate, 2013/Routledge, 2016).