Nancy Porsia is an Italian freelance print and televison journalist and documentary writer and producer.

She works as a field researcher for international think tanks. She also runs training courses for journalists.

Based in Libya and Tunisia, she specialises in the Middle East and North Africa. For the last five years, she has been covering politics, security, and illegal migration in Libya. Her reporting has been cited by the UN Panel of Experts on Libya.

Her recent reports from Libya, Syria and Lebanon have appeared invarious magazines, as wel as on radio and television including RAI, ARD, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Xinhua, IRIN News, L’Espresso, La Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Aki Adnkronos, La Vanguardia, Týždeň and Radio 24.

Nancy Porsia speaks Arabic, English and Italian.

Nancy Porsia

Basic information

Name
Nancy Porsia
Title
Journalist and expert
Expertise
Security, migration
Country
Italy
City
Rome
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Supported projects

Operation Sophia

  • Migration
  • Organised crime
  • Politics

Consequences of the EU's Attempt to Neutralise People Smugglers

TRIPOLI - The central Mediterranean is now the busiest corridor for irregular migration to the European Union. All previous efforts to combat the flows have led to more crossings and more deaths at sea.

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Mentor for

Syria’s Stolen Children

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Social affairs

DAMASCUS – Following the collapse of the Assad regime, it emerged that at least 3,700 children had gone missing in Syria. They were either arrested alongside their parents or born to political prisoners in jail. Nobody knows where they are today. Have they been killed and buried in mass graves, illegally adopted, or forcibly sonscripted into the army? In many cases, their trail leads to Syrian and international orphanages. 

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The Road of No Return

  • Migration
  • Trafficking

SARAJEVO - Dozens of migrants from Asia and Africa drown every year in the rivers between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. 

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Vanja Stokić

The Slaves of Champagne

  • Agriculture
  • Exploitation
  • Migration

EPERNAY / COLOMBO - For decades, champagne has been a symbol of luxury. But in recent years, the sparkling wine from eastern France has taken a battering. Severalhuman trafficking scandals have hit the famous French industry.

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Torture, Covid-19 and forced deterrence at EU borders

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Politics

SARAJEVO - On April 13 2020, the number of deaths due to the Coronavirus in Italy exceeded 20,000. That same afternoon, Saeed carefully packed his bag in the migrant camp of Lipa, Bosnia. Three portable charging batteries, a box of cigarettes, a sleeping bag, and a picture of his two children back in Pakistan. 

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