Sara Manisera, Journalism & Human Rights Projects

Sara has worked extensively in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, North Africa and Italy. Her research focuses on environmental conflicts, gender issues and food supply chains. Her feature stories and investigations have been published by Al Jazeera, Libèration, El Pais, The Guardian, Irpi Media, Internazionale. In 2023, she became a fellow of the Bertha Foundation with a long-term project exploring grain’s global supply chains. She’s the author of Storie di schiavitù e lotta nella campagna italiana (Tales of slavery and struggle in the Italian countryside, Aut, 2019), and the co-director of two documentaries, La Terra mi tiene (The Earth holds me, Fada Collective, 2022) and Iraq: Youth on the frontline (Arte, 2019). Sara is a member of FADA Collective, which brings together the experience of a group of Italian freelance reporters working across media and borders. An independent newsroom producing deeply reported public interest stories.

She has been awarded the Golden Dove for Peace (2018), the True Story Award (2019) for an investigation on Syria’s desaparecidos, and the UNCA Prince Albert II Award (2021) for her work on Iraqìs water crisis.