Lorenzo Casini Lorenzo Casini is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Messina. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute (2006-2007) and has taught at several Italian universities. Heis co-author of Modernità arabe: Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano [Arab Modernity: Nation, Narration and New Subjects in the Egyptian Novel] (Mesogea, 2012). Read More Read Less