Laura Silvia Battaglia is an Italian reporter, specialising in crisis and conflict areas since 2007. With a particular focus on Yemen and Iraq, she has covered ethnic, religious and gender minorities, migration, terrorism and human and arms trafficking over the years. She is an author and presenter for Radio3 (Radio3Mondo) and a documentary filmmaker. She collaborates with many Italian and foreign media including the American newspaper The Washington Post. He published the graphic novel The Yemenite bride with Paola Cannatella (Beccogiallo 2018) and the book-investigation Letters from Guantanamo (Castelvecchi publisher 2021). His latest documentary, Yemen Despite the War (2019-2020), was produced and distributed by RaiDoc, ZDF, Al Jazeera Documentary, and won the Europe Film Festival UK 2021. He has won the Siani, Maria Grazia Cutuli, Lucchetta, Dove for Peace, Journalist of the Mediterranean awards, among others.