My books, so far all in Italian.
Damasco. Crocevia millenario nello spazio euro-asiatico
Damascus. A Millennial Crossroads in Eurasian Space. Paesi Edizioni, Rome, 2026, series “Città geopolitiche”. A portrait of Damascus as an unavoidable junction between mountain, plain and steppe, written after returning to the city in 2025.
Negoziazione e potere in Medio Oriente. Alle radici dei conflitti in Siria e dintorni
Negotiation and Power in the Middle East. At the Roots of the Conflicts in Syria and Beyond. Mondadori Università, Milan, 2022, ISBN 978-88-6184-819-1. Syria as a laboratory for understanding how power is built and negotiated between centre and peripheries, institutions and local intermediaries. A revised English edition, Power and Negotiations in the Middle East, is forthcoming with Viella.
Sciismo e potere. Il peso della storia tra Iran, Libano e Iraq
Shiism and Power. The Weight of History in Iran, Lebanon and Iraq. With Lorenzo Kamel. Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, Rome, 2020. I wrote the introduction and the chapter on Iraq.
Siria. Dagli ottomani agli Asad. E oltre
Syria. From the Ottomans to the Asads. And Beyond. Mondadori Università, Milan, 2013; updated edition 2014.
Siria nel nuovo Medio Oriente
Syria in the New Middle East. Editori Riuniti, Rome, 2004.
Work in progress
A book on Beirut, due in 2027.