Giuseppe Dentice is an Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). His research interests include geopolitical and security issues in the MENA region, with a focus on Egypt, Israel and Gulf monarchies, as well as international relations in the Middle East and socio-political transformations in the MENA region. He is also a Ph.D Candidate in “Institutions and Politics” at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. His academic research focuses on the evolution and impact of U.S.-Egypt relations under the Sadat and Mubarak’s tenure. He is nominated “Cultore della Materia” (Subject Expert and Teaching Assistant) in “History of Civilisations and Political Cultures” and “International History - The Wider Mediterranean” by Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University of Milan, respectively since 2019 and 2020. He holds a Bachelor’s in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Salento and a Master’s in International Science from the University of Siena. He published extensively – in Italy and abroad – on a wide range of issues regarding socio-political transformations in the MENA region, security politics, history of international relations, US foreign policy in the MENA region, and international politics. He contributed also to several reports for the Italian Parliament and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he contributes to the annual editions of ISPI/Treccani’s Geopolitial Atlas since 2013. He is also regularly interviewed on Middle East affairs issues by Italian and international media outlets.