Laura Cappon is a journalist, correspondent for RAI's in-depth programmes and collaborates with Domani. She has worked for Italian publications, such as Il Fatto Quotidiano and Radio Popolare, and international ones, such as Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana, Al-Jazeera and The New Arab. She has worked alongside Gad Lerner on reportages for Rai 3. She is an expert on Egyptian affairs and lived in Cairo during the years of the revolution. She has covered stories from the latest conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and from various countries in the Middle East and North Africa including Lebanon, Iraq , Qatar, Morocco and Tunisia. In 2013 she won the "The Island That Is" award for her coverage of the Egyptian coup d'état, and in 2017 the Mediterranean Peace Envoy award for a series of articles on Giulio Regeni. In 2022 he published with Gianluca Costantini the Graphic Novel "Patrick Zaki, una storia egiziana" (Feltrinelli).