Gabriele del Grande

Gabriele del Grande (* 1982 in Lucca) is an Italian journalist, blogger, writer and human rights activist.

In 2006, he founded the blog Fortress Europe,[4] 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.

[5] 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.