Luciano Gallinari Editor

Heba Abdelnaby is a professor of Islamic archaeology and former
vice dean for graduate studies and research at the Faculty of Tourism
and Hotels, Alexandria University. She was a visiting scholar/
professor at several distinguished institutions such as Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, George Washington University
and Mary Baldwin University.

Luciano Gallinari is a researcher at the CNR-ISEM. He has completed
his PhD in Histoire et Civilisations (EHESS, Paris). He is the Italian
PI of the bilateral projects between the CNR (Italy) and the ASRT
(Egypt) entitled “Peace Building between East and West (XI-XVI
c.)” (2015-2017) and “Intercultural influence between East and West:
11th-21st c.” (2018-2020).