Giovanni Pagani

Giovanni Pagani has an MSc in Middle East Politics from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He wrote his dissertation on urban reconstruction and sectarian fragmentation in post-war Beirut, where he spent a month for research. He is currently collaborating with the Italian news agency Nena-News.

Why it would be sheer folly to redraw Middle East borders along ethnic lines

However groundless the Sykes-Picot Agreement, is a Balkanisation of Syria and Iraq really the way forward?

By Giovanni Pagani

/ 9 Dec 2015