Reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict is possibly one of the more demanding of journalistic assignments. The elements which come into play are multifarious: cultural, political, linguistic, eco...
Susan Dabbous
Susan Dabbous is an Italo-Syrian journalist based in Beirut and Jerusalem. She writes for a variety of Italian publications, in particular the daily Avvenire. She has closely followed events in Syria since March 2011. In December 2012 she co-wrote the screenplay of Border, a film by Alessio Cremonini based on the true story of the dramatic escape of two sisters from Syria and Turkey.
In April 2013, while in Syria, she was abducted and held hostage with three other Italian journalists for eleven days before being released. In December 2013 she was awarded the International Prize for Press Freedom Isf-City of Florence by the Information Safety and Freedom Association. The chronicle of her abduction, entitled Come vuoi morire?, was published in 2014. Before focusing on the Middle East she wrote numerous reportages from Washington and Paris on the topics of migration, racism and integration.
Faster, farther, cheaper and certainly no safer, the men and women who cover world events are expected to do more with less, as technology and the news industry's economic struggles have changed what ...
Susan Dabbous: "On April 3, 2013 I was kidnapped in Syria, along with three other Italian journalists, by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group, in Ghassanieh, a Christian village outside Lattakia. We we...
What should information professionals do when activists replace journalists in the production of news? The dramatic conflict in Syria is a war fought on two fronts: military and media. The difficult...
An average of two journalists are killed every week carrying out their work. Most are local journalists investigating crime and corruption and their killers are seldom found. Ten years ago the news ...