Francesca Borri is a war reporter specialized in the Middle East. A scholar of Antonio Cassese, the founder of the International Criminal Court, she worked as a Human Rights Adviser before turning to journalism in 2012, covering the Arab Spring and the battle of Aleppo. Since then, her work has been translated into 24 languages. She writes for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's leading newspaper, and in Italy, for La Repubblica.