Sofia Barbarani is a writer and editor based in Rome, Italy. Since 2022, she has worked in communications across the UN and international NGOs, supporting campaigns, content, and strategy. From 2012 to 2024 she worked as a journalist with a focus on gender and humanitarian reporting in conflict and war 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, Greece and the UAE, 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, The New Humanitarian, 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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