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Tom Behan (22 June 1957, in London – 30 August 2010, in Monza) was born from Irish parents.He was an academic and writer on Italian history, politics and culture. Behan was an active member of the British Socialist Workers Party for over 30 years.In his youth he knew the unfair widespread prejudice against the Irish and he found reading Socialist Worker newspaper what was the only thing he thought that made sense on Ireland.He didn't go to university until 1982, so was part of the first post-war youth generation to experience a society of mass youth unemployment.He had lived in Naples in the early 1980s, acquiring an excellent mastery of Italian and noticing the after-earthquake management by the camorristic groups.

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  • توم بيهان (بالإنجليزية: Tom Behan)‏ هو مؤرخ بريطاني، ولد في 22 يونيو 1957، وتوفي في 30 أغسطس 2010. (ar)
  • Tom Behan (22 June 1957, in London – 30 August 2010, in Monza) was born from Irish parents.He was an academic and writer on Italian history, politics and culture. Behan was an active member of the British Socialist Workers Party for over 30 years.In his youth he knew the unfair widespread prejudice against the Irish and he found reading Socialist Worker newspaper what was the only thing he thought that made sense on Ireland.He didn't go to university until 1982, so was part of the first post-war youth generation to experience a society of mass youth unemployment.He had lived in Naples in the early 1980s, acquiring an excellent mastery of Italian and noticing the after-earthquake management by the camorristic groups. (en)
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  • توم بيهان (بالإنجليزية: Tom Behan)‏ هو مؤرخ بريطاني، ولد في 22 يونيو 1957، وتوفي في 30 أغسطس 2010. (ar)
  • Tom Behan (22 June 1957, in London – 30 August 2010, in Monza) was born from Irish parents.He was an academic and writer on Italian history, politics and culture. Behan was an active member of the British Socialist Workers Party for over 30 years.In his youth he knew the unfair widespread prejudice against the Irish and he found reading Socialist Worker newspaper what was the only thing he thought that made sense on Ireland.He didn't go to university until 1982, so was part of the first post-war youth generation to experience a society of mass youth unemployment.He had lived in Naples in the early 1980s, acquiring an excellent mastery of Italian and noticing the after-earthquake management by the camorristic groups. By the early 1990s, when he was at the University of Reading (UK), he had collected considerable documentation on organized crime and provided advice to English TV inquiry programs “Channel 4”.After obtaining his doctorate in “Italian studies” and working for about two years in Australia, at La Trobe University of Melbourne, Behan published his first book on the subject (The Camorra, Routledge, London, 1996).He continued to alternate his academic work, first at the University of Glasgow and then in Kent, with an intense participation in global protest events. He was a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Author of the first political biography of Europe's leading radical playwright and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Dario Fo and an authority on Italian organised crime. Behan died in Monza (Milan) on 30 August 2010 after a long illness and is survived by his partner, Barbara Rampoldi. (en)
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