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Arturo Marzano
University of Pisa
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Via Pasquale Paoli, 15
IT-56126 Pisa PI
Italy
ABOUT
Arturo Marzano (Rome, 1973) is Assistant Professor of History of the Middle East at the University of Pisa. He got his PhD in Contemporary History at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, and has been Research Fellow at the University of Pisa; 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); and 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. At the moment, he is working on a project called "Radio Bari—War of Waves. European Radio Propaganda in the Arab World: the Experience of Radio Bari (1934-43)". He has published extensively on Italian and International journals, including Contemporanea, Passato e Presente, The Journal of Conflict Studies, European Journal of Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, The International Spectator. He also worked with NGOs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in Syria and in Lebanon between 2001 and 2004.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Israel Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Zionism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Mashreq
West Bank
Specialties
The Fascist Propaganda In The Arab World
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Political And Cultural Relationship Between Italy And The Middle East
Languages
Italian (native)
English (fluent)
Hebrew (advanced)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Political Sciences | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Abstracts
Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism of Radio Bari (1934-43): An Unsolvable Contradiction Transnational networks across the Mediterranean sea in the 1930s: the case of Radio Bari Listening to Arabic Radio Transmissions in the Middle East (1938-43) The Border between Israel and the Gaza Strip (1967-2007)