Claudia De Martino is a researcher in Middle Eastern affairs at UNIMED, specialized on international labour policies and development at the ILO/Turin. In 2016 she was Postdoc Fellow at the Orientale University of Naples within the EUspring (Arab Springs’) project (2015-2016) and DAAD annual scholarship recipient in 2015. She received her PhD in Social History of the Mediterranean at the Ca’ Foscari University in 2012 in Social History of Israel. Between 2008-2012 she was teaching assistant at the Chair of History of Europe and the Mediterranean at Roma Tre University. Author of 2 books (“Il nuovo ordine israeliano”, Castelvecchi, 2017 and “I mizrahim in Israele”, Carocci, 2015) and many journal articles (“Israel and the Italian Communist Party “, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2015; “The Social Legacy of the Yom Kippur War”, Hurst, 2013).