Francesca Mannocchi is an award-winning freelance journalist. She contributes to Italian TV, and Italian and international magazines. In recent years, she has covered wars and the migration crisis in Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, and Afghanistan. In 2016 she co-directed the documentary ‘If I Close My Eyes‘, on Syrian refugees in Lebanon, screened at Rome Film Festival. In 2018 her documentary ‘Isis, tomorrow‘, on the sons of Isis fighters in Mosul, has been screened at 75° International Venice Film Festival. She is the author of four books. She is the author of four books.

Francesca Mannocchi
Journalist and author