​Alessandra Marchi is currently working as Scientific Coordinator of the GramsciLab – Laboratory of International Gramscian studies, Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Cagliari. She works with Patrizia Manduchi - professor of History and Culture of the Arab/Islamic world - and they recently edited the volume on Gramsci in the Arab World (Gramsci nel mondo arabo, Il Mulino 2017) which collected different articles of Arab intellectuals translated into Italian. She is currently working on the Gramscian readings of the MENA region, especially after 2011 and the post-‘revolutionary’ period. She did research on the Italian community in Egypt and on the Egyptian uprising, with fieldwork in Cairo and Alexandria (at the French CNRS équipe Céalex, www.cealex.org) during the period 2009-2014. She also worked at the Antonio Gramsci House Museum in Ghilarza (Italy), from 2011-2016.