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Laura Silvia Battaglia al-Jalal is a freelance awarded journalist, living between Italy and Sanaa (Yemen). She works in Middle Eastern conflict zones since 2007 and she has been reporting from difficult environments about criminality, human rights issues, trafficking, terrorism and trade of weapons. Since 2010 she’s particulary focused in the aftermath of the American Occupation of Iraq and, from 2012, in the Yemen post-revolution. She contributes to several international printed media, magazines and broadcasters (Index on censorship, Guernica magazine, The Week India, TRT World, Transterra media, RSI) as well as Italians (La Stampa, La Repubblica, Rai 3). She is radio host at the National Broadcaster Service in Italy (RAI Radio 3) and she is the curator of a foreign affairs radio show named Radio3Mondo. She has produced, shot and distributed ten video documentaries: the latest, Yemen, despite the war, is a rare insight in the daily life of some Yemenis who are trying to develop a new culture of peace in the country devastated by the current war. She is lecturing at many European institutions as well as at Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford. She has written the e-book Letters from Guantanamo (Il Reportage, 2016) and with Paola Cannatella the graphic novel The Yemeni bride (Becco Giallo, 2017), translated in four languages.