The Syrian conflict is one of the longest and bloodiest of the Middle East. Nevertheless, there are very few journalists who have managed to document it on the ground. This is why activists who have...
Eugenio Dacrema
Eugenio Dacrema is a PhD student at the University of Trento and currently a visiting scholar at the American University of Beirut. He is also a research associate at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). His research focuses on the socio-economic roots of the radicalisation and of the social revolts of the Arab world using models of game theory. The Syrian conflict and North African political transitions are central to his research. He also contributes to Corriere della Sera, Il Foglio and Linkiesta.
For several months the Islamic State, or ISIS, has been threatening the world with its violence and its plans of conquest. After seizing large areas of Syria and Iraq, and declaring, last June, the ...