ASERIncontra From 07 November 2022
Looking beyond the border.
From Afghanistan to Ukraine, today's conflicts told to young people
ASERI is pleased to present the volume
Looking beyond the border.
From Afghanistan to Ukraine, today's conflicts told to young people
by Francesca Mannocchi
DeAgostini
Monday 7 November 2022, 6.30 pm
in ASERI (Via San Vittore 18) and ONLINE
Introduces:
Prof. Vittorio Emanuele PARSI, Director of ASERI
Speakers:
Dr Francesca MANNOCCHI, journalist
The scent of Lebanese cedars, the ochre color of the late Afghan afternoon, the smile of a Syrian man who silently studies a foreign guest to understand whether to tell her his story. These are just some of the clear images that we will see through the gaze beyond the border of Francesca Mannocchi, a war journalist in the field who for many years has been bringing to our homes the chronicle of what is happening around us, in the regions of Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, up to the cities of Ukraine. Countries distant and different from ours only in appearance, whose events interest us closely because they are part of the present day we know, with terrorist attacks, revolutions, poverty, waves of migration. Francesca takes us to the war territories on a journey made up of ancient places, cultures and traditions, but above all of people, adults and children, real lives of survivors and fighters called to defend their home, their rights, their future. A precious direct testimony to reconstruct the tangled web of history, because understanding the past helps to extricate oneself from the present and, perhaps, to change tomorrow.
Francesca Mannocchi is a journalist and writer, she deals with migration and conflicts and collaborates with Italian and international newspapers. He has made reportages in many countries including Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen. He has received, among others, the "Premiolino" for journalism in 2016, the "Ischia International Journalism Award" and the "Flaiano Prize" for journalism. In 2018 the documentary Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul, directed with photographer Alessio Romenzi, was presented at the 75th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. He has published Porti ogni la sua colpa (2019), Libia (2020), Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente (2019) and Bianco è il colore del danno (2021).
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