Dataharvest 2025 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

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 among others. 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 'Racconti di schiavitù e lotta nella campagna italiana” (Tales of slavery and struggle in the Italian countryside, Aut Aut, 2019), and the co-director of three documentaries, ‘La Terra mi tiene’ (The Earth holds me, Fada Collective, 2022), ‘Iraq: Youth on the frontline’ (Arte, 2019) and "The price we pay" (Greenpeace&Recommon, 2025). 

She has been awarded the Golden Dove for Peace (2018), the True Story Award (2019) for an investigation on Syria’s desaparecidos, the UNCA Prince Albert II Award (2021) and the European Press Prize (2023) for her work on Iraqìs water crisis.