Sofia Barbarani is a speechwriter and editor based in Rome, Italy. From 2012 to 2022 she worked as a journalist with a focus on gender and humanitarian reporting in conflict zones.

 

She has worked extensively in Iraq, the Kurdistan Region and northeast Syria, where she covered the rise and fall of ISIS and the effects of war on the civilian population. She has also reported from Tunisia, South Sudan, Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine, Poland, southern Europe and the Gulf, and was Italy correspondent for The Independent from 2021 to 2022. 

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Her words and images have been published by The Telegraph, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times & The Sunday Times, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Al Jazeera English, and others.

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She researched and wrote the 2015 Lonely Planet Iraq chapter and contributed to Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan. She also carried out region-wide reporting and research for The Guardian’s Latin America Now series as well as The New York Times Upfront. She has been nominated for awards for her work in Syria and Venezuela. 

 

 

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