Gabriele del Grande


Gabriele del Grande is an Italian journalist, blogger, writer and human rights activist. In Europe, he is one of the leading human rights defenders in the area of illegal immigrants to Italy and to Europe.
On April 10, 2017, he was arrested in the Hatay Province near the Syria–Turkey border. He was freed after two weeks.
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Life

Born in Lucca to Massimo and Sara Urro, Gabriele Del Grande studied history and oriental studies in Bologna and trained as a journalist at the 'Lelio Basso Foundation' in Rome.
In 2006, he founded the blog Fortress Europe, one of the main observatories of the victims of migration along the European borders. Since then he has been traveling as a freelance journalist around Southern Europe, Northern and West Africa and the Middle East reporting about migrations, wars and jihadism.
His reportages has been published in Time, Al Monitor, Vocativ, Taz, Internazionale, Rai, Radio3, RSI, Jungle World, Roads & Kingdoms, L’Unità, Redattore Sociale and others.
In 2014 he was one of the co-authors and co-directors of the internationally awarded docufilm Io sto con la sposa .
His last book, Dawla, is a deep investigation into the history of the Islamic State in Syria narrated through the stories of a number of former jihadists who deserted the organization after its defeat.

Works

Mamadou va a morire : la strage dei clandestini nel Mediterraneo. Roma : Infinito, 2007
  • * Mamadous Fahrt in den Tod. Die Tragödie der irregulären Migranten im Mittelmeer. Von-Loeper, Karlsruhe, 2008
  • * Mamadú Va A Morir Oriente y Mediterráneo, Madrid, 2009Roma senza fissa dimora. Roma, Infinito 2009 Il mare di mezzo. Roma, Infinito, 2009
  • * Das Meer zwischen uns. Flucht und Migration in Zeiten der Abschottung. Von-Loeper, Karlsruhe, 2011
  • * Quemar la frontera. Editorial Popular, Madrid, 2012Io sto con la sposa, 98minuti, Milano 2014, Gina FilmsDawla. La storia dello Stato islamico raccontata dai suoi disertori. Milano, Mondadori, 2018
  • * Dawla: La historia del Estado Islámico contada por sus desertores Oriente y Mediterráneo, Madrid, 2019
  • Il secolo mobile. Storia dell'immigrazione illegale in Europa. Milano, Mondadori, 2023.

Awards

  • premio Santa Marinella, 2007
  • Pro-Asyl-Menschenrechtspreis, 2010
  • Archivio Disarmo - Golden Doves for Peace, 2010Prix Caritas, 2015