Francesca Borri

Francesca Borri
Born	1980
Nationality	Italian
Notable works	Qualcuno con cui parlare. Israeliani e Palestinesi.

Francesca Borri (born 1980) is an Italian journalist whose reportage focuses on armed conflicts in Israel and Palestine, Kosovo, and Syria.

Life

She studied in Florence and Pisa and has worked in the Balkans and the Middle East as a human rights officer. 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. In 2016, Borri's book on the Syrian civil war, La guerra dentro, was translated by Anne Milano Appel and published by Seven Stories Press under the title Syrian Dust. In 2018, Seven Stories published a second translation of Borri's work, Destination Paradise, about the presence of jihadists in the Maldives. This book, however, generated controversy and received great public backlash from the Maldivian Twitter community for its "inaccurate" and "racist" representation of their country and people.

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

Works

• Passaggi / [La meridiana], la meridiana, 2008, ISBN 9788861530478
• Qualcuno con cui parlare: israeliani e palestinesi, Manifestolibri, 2010, ISBN 9788872856505
• La guerra dentro, Bompiani, 2014, ISBN 9788858767290
• Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the Battle for Aleppo, Seven Stories Press, 2015, ISBN 9781609806613
• Destination Paradise: Among the Jihadists of the Maldives, Seven Stories Press, 2017, ISBN 9781609808433