Arturo Marzano is Associate Professor at the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa. He has been Post-doc Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research – Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Visiting Researcher at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Senior Research Fellow at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2); Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute. His research mainly deals with history of Judaism, Zionism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the relationship between Italy and the Middle East in the XX century. On these topics, he has published books and articles in leading Italian and International journals.