Francesca Borri

Life

She studied in Florence and Pisa and has worked in the Balkans and the Middle East. Her first book Non aprire mai (2008) was a study of the conflict in Kosovo. In 2010, she published a book on the Israel-Palestine conflict titled Qualcuno con cui parlare. Israeliani e Palestinesi (Someone to talk to. Israelis and Palestinians).

In 2012, she began reporting from Syria. Her latest work La guerra dentro, a work of reportage on the Syrian civil war, has received an English translation by Anne Milano Appel, published in 2016, under the title Syrian Dust.

Borri writes regularly for Il Fatto Quotidiano, Internazionale, and Al-Monitor.

Works