With the definitive victory of Bashar al Assad, a question weighs on the future of Syria. Will there ever be justice for the thousands of people killed, disappeared or tortured? On what memory will Sy...

2018 was the year open source investigation went mainstream. Bellingcat made headlines around the world with its investigation into the Skripal case and MH17. The New York Times won an Emmy award for ...

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home–more than 65 million globally. For over a decade, human rights journalist Agus Morales has journeyed ...

What are we getting when we read news stories and analysis from the Middle East? Are we getting the truth, half the truth or nothing near the truth? In Egypt there is censorship that makes telling the...

17 years after the invasion of Afghanistan, the country's situation shows no signs of improvement. The peace talks with the Taliban have so far proved futile and the government controls only 65.6% of ...

In Egypt, Syria, Libya and Tunisia, it has become very challenging to be a journalist. Doing your basic job is marred with daily risks. Following the Arab spring and the unprecedented hopes for freedo...

Noura Ghazi Safadi in conversation with Francesca Caferri and Donatella Della Ratta. It was 15 March 2011 and thousands of people took to the streets of Damascus, shouting slogans similar to those th...

There is no communication and storytelling medium facing greater disruption by the digital revolution than photography. Anyone with a smartphone and a bit of good timing can compete with the most seas...

No nation and no continent can be considered safe from armed radicalism and thus from the terrorist threat. The danger does not come only from ISIS which has become increasingly weakened. A high numbe...

ijf17talk by Zaina Erhaim. Moderator Maria Gianniti. It's easy to know how many journalists have been killed in Syria since the uprising against the regime in 2011; many reports and statistics show t...