Journalist, born in Rome in 1961, Paola Caridi is a founding member and the president of the News Agency “Lettera22”. She wrote for national and local Italian newspaper. PhD in History of International Relations, she is specialised on Middle East and Northern Africa region.

Correspondent in Cairo (2001-2003), she has been based from 2003 to 2012 in Jerusalem. Lecturer at the University of Palermo on History of International Relations, Paola Caridi is also a member of the International Affairs Institute, a renowned Italian think tank.

She published in 2007 Arabi Invisibili (Feltrinelli publishing house), Capalbio Price 2008 .The Egyptian National Institute of Translation in Cairo published the book’s Arab version in 2011, after the Egyptian Revolution. ‘Ala al Aswany wrote the preface.

In 2009, she published Hamas (Feltrinelli publishing house). The English version of Hamas. From Resistance to Government? has been published by PASSIA in East Jerusalem in February 2010. Seven Stories Press published in March, 2012, the American version of the book, updated and with an added chapter on the latest events.

In 2011, she edited and translated the Italian edition of Aswani’s book On the State of Egypt (AUC Press 2011).
In 2013 she published Gerusalemme senza Dio. Ritratto di una Città Crudele (Feltrinelli). The American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press) published the English version in Summer 2017, as Jerusalem without God. Portrait of a Cruel City.