This book is one of the publications of the bilateral Egyptian-Italian

research project “Intercultural Relations between East and

West from the 11th to 21st century” funded by Academy of Scientific

Research and Technology (ASRT) and the National Research

Council (CNR) (2019–2021). The book previews some of

the research presented in the 2nd international webinar organised

by the project in May 2021 entitled “Art, Culture and Trade

as Evidence of Bonds between East and West: 11th to 21st century”.

In that webinar, researchers from Italian, Egyptian, Hungarian

and Belgian Universities highlighted some topics focusing on

intercultural bonds between the Western and the Islamic worlds.

In the book, we have chosen to deal with multi-layer concepts

such as “Identity”, “Otherness”, “Diversity” and “Minorities” declined

in the relationships between East and West.