Alessia de Luca is a freelance journalist and ISPI Advisor for Online Publications, in charge of the ISPI’s ‘Daily Focus’ on international affairs. A professional journalist, she has served as Middle East and Northern Africa correspondent from 2005 to 2009 for AdnKronos International. She has covered, among other issues, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the signing of complementary peace agreements between North and South Sudan and the civil uprising in the MENA region. Previously at Skytg24, she also contributed for RAI and Radio Vadicana. Her works were published among others by La Stampa, Lifegate, Nigrizia, Avvenire and EastWest.