Heba Abdelnaby is a professor of Islamic archaeology and formervice dean for graduate studies and research at the Faculty of Tourismand Hotels, Alexandria University. She was a visiting scholar/professor at several distinguished institutions such as Max PlanckInstitute for the History of Science, George Washington Universityand Mary Baldwin University.Luciano Gallinari is a researcher at the CNR-ISEM. He has completedhis PhD in Histoire et Civilisations (EHESS, Paris). He is the ItalianPI of the bilateral projects between the CNR (Italy) and the ASRT(Egypt) entitled “Peace Building between East and West (XI-XVIc.)” (2015-2017) and “Intercultural influence between East and West:11th-21st c.” (2018-2020).

• Luciano Gallinari - Heba Mahmoud Saad Abdelnaby Foreword — Isabella Gagliardi : Bridge between East and West: the pattern of Fool for Christ throught the Egypt in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages — Giuseppe Cacciaguerra : Byzantine and Islamic Amphorae in Syracuse. New light on trade networks and identities in an early medieval mediterranean (8th-11th Century) — Marco Demichelis : The "Islamic narrative path" for Political, Religious and Bellicose Legitimacy: the role played by Christians Historical figures in Late Antiquity — Giovanni Serreli : The epigraph of San Saturnino in Solanas (Cagliari, Sardegna) — Luciano Gallinari : The role of Muslims and martyrs in the identity process of medieval and modern Sardinia. Historiography versus History — Richard Knorr : Genoese-Mamluk diplomacy during the Bahri Dynasty. An Overview — Rania Mohammad Ibrahim : Trade between Dubrovnik (Ragusa) and Alexandria 1250- 1517 AD — Ali Elsayed : A European Jewish awakening in Mamluki land — Heba Mahmoud Saad Abdelnaby : Fascination with the East: the Foreigners’ Pursuit to Honor and Present the Islamic Heritage of Egypt — Maria Antonella Pasci : Identities, Belongingness and Places: Can Travel Literature Connect Cultures? Italian Travelers Discovering Egypt in the XIX Century — Prantner Zonta - Abdallah Abdel-Ati Al-Naggar : "On Eagles’Wing". The History of the Yemeni Jews and their exodus to the Promised Land.