Giuliana Iurlano is an aggregate professor of History of International Relations at the University of Salento, Lecce, and a lecturer of United States History at the same University. Her last books: Sion in America. Idee, progetti, movimenti per uno Stato ebraico (1654-1917) [Sion in America. Ideas, Projects and Movements for a Jewish State] and, with Antonio Donno, Nixon, Kissinger e il Medio Oriente, 1969-1973 (2010) [Nixon, Kissinger and the Middle East, 1969-1973].