Giovanni Marinelli
Firenze, Italy
graduated in Arabic & translation, lived in Damascus and loved people I met there
I've been living in Damascus from 2009 to 2011, studying Arabic and working as Italian teacher. In 2011 I got a scolarship to study at Ifpo in Beirut but I kept visiting friends back in Damascus and listening to their stories. I wanted to do something about, so in September 2013 I came back to Lebanon with the Italian NGO Operazione Colomba, as guide/interpreter in their first assesment trip. In 2014 I lived for 3 months in the Syrian refugee camps whare I met the inhabitants of al-Rabia camp.