ROME - The Euro-Gulf Information Centre began their historical lecture series this month with a talk on the Italian scholar of Libyan history, Leone Caetani, by Dr Benedict Koehler, which explored the dazzling insights of this giant of Islamic scholarship in the West from over 100 years ago, The Italian Insider spoke to the EGIC President, Dr Mitchell Belfer, about modern Italian Libyan relations and how the history of imperialism and the imposition of rationalism should affect the way we view the two Mediterranean countries today.