East and West (New Series) resumes its publications, after almost a decade of silence, with this first issue of the 2020 volume. This is exactly seventy years after Giuseppe Tucci, in his quality of President of IsMEO, began, with his foreword contained in the first pages of the first issue of East and West 1 (1950), his dialogue between East and West.
Table of contents of No.1:
- Foreword by Adriano V. Rossi
- G. Gnoli: More on the “Traditional Date of Zoroaster:” the Arsacid Era and Other Topics
- S. Ferdinandi: Mons Thabor: status questiones
- G. Buffon: Mount Tabor and the Politics of Archaeology in the Holy Places (1858-1924). The Custody of the Holy Land’s Defence of Property Rights, Excavation Campaigns and Building Work on the Mount of Transfiguration
- A. Taddei: The Skeuophylakion of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople: Events of the Fourth to Sixth Centuries CE
- M. Baldi: From Meroe to Modern Sudan: the Kushite Building Techniques in the Present Vernacular Architecture in the Area of Begrawiya
- F. Desset, M. Vidale, N. Eskandari, K. Caulfield: Distaffs and “Temple” in Early Bronze Age Iran
- A. Askari Chaverdi, P. Callieri: Tol-e Ajori and Takht-e Jamshid: a Sequence of Imperial Projects in the Persepolis Area
- A. Filigenzi: A Space of Mobility: the Interregional Dynamics of Buddhist Artistic Production as Reflected in Archaeological Evidence
Table of contents of No. 2:
- S. Morra: Rethinking mālūf, Arab Andalusian Music in Tunisia
- G. Banti: Some Further Remarks on the Old Harari Kitāb alfarāyid
- N. Mahzounzadeh, E. Bortolini: Beyond Shape: a New Perspective on the Classification of Arrowheads from the Historical Pre-Islamic Period in Iran
- B. Genito: The State/Imperial Political Formation of the Achaemenid Dynasty, an Archaeological Question
- C.G. Cereti: MAIKI Activities on the Paikuli Monument and Its Surroundings
- E. Matin: The Achaemenid Settlement of Dashtestan (Borazjan): A View from Persepolis
- F. Sinisi: Iconography of the Elite in post-Greek Bactria and North-West India and Its Transmission from the Saka to the Yuezhi
- O. Nalesini: Old Tibetan <ʼbrong>, Burmese and Old Mon
- S. Vignato, Motherly Landscapes: Matrifocality, Marriage, Islam and the Change of Generation in Post-Conflict, Post-Tsunami Aceh