Antonella Napoli
Antonella Napoli, a journalist and analyst of international issues, has collaborated and continues to collaborate with major national and international newspapers, including Limes, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Left, Daily Mail, Sudan Tribune, Traveler, Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Avvenire, L'Espresso, Il Mattino, Repubblica, and television stations such as Rai, Swiss Radio Television, TV2000, and Al Jazeera. She has made investigations and documentaries as a war reporter in various countries around the world and is the winner of various journalism awards. Author of various essays and books, including the bestseller “My Name is Meriam”, (Edizioni Piemme) translated into 8 languages and published in 15 countries, she is recognized as the most authoritative voice in Italy on Africa and migration issues. After her arrest by security services in Sudan in January 2019, while covering the ongoing riots in the country, in June of the same year, through a letter delivered to the National Press Federation, the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, explicitly referring to her professional activity, ordered her not to return to Sudan and threatened her with death. Telephone and social media intimidation followed. For this reason, controlled radio protection / surveillance was ordered against him. Her latest book, “Voices of Resistance”, a journey into anti-Trump America, collects the voices of activists, lawyers, and all those in American civil society who chose to engage in rights advocacy in the Trump era.