Presented in Tel Aviv Rai correspondent Brunori’s book ‘The New Middle East’. The meeting organized by the Embassy of Italy in Israel with the Institute of Culture

10 February 2026, 14:46

Apresentation of the book “The New Middle East, the Decline of the Shiite Crescent,” by Giovan Battista Brunori, RAI correspondent and Jerusalem bureau chief, was held at the Gutman Museum in Tel Aviv.

The meeting was organized by the Embassy of Italy in Israel in cooperation with the Tel Aviv Cultural Institute and was a great success with the audience.
The conversation with the author,” reads a note, “was introduced by Ambassador Luca Ferrari, who pointed out that the book, “with Brunori’s dry and lucid style, returns a valuable starting point for the analysis of a regional change that, which began two years ago with the anti-Semitic pogrom of Oct.

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7, continues to mark the evolutions and new balances in the Greater Middle East. The Ambassador highlighted the need to have more and more opportunities for open dialogue, reiterating “the value of journalism as the key to providing essential tools for the public, all the more so in war scenarios, to understand the complexity of our time.” Silvana Logozzo, ANSA correspondent in Israel, and Sharon Nizza, journalist and contributor to Foglio, participated in the discussion, the note explained. Delving with Brunori into today’s meaning of information and the importance of verifying facts in order not to give in to disinformation, it was stressed that there is now more than ever a sense of urgency in the search for antidotes to the proliferation of fake news, which end up reverberating in Western societies bringing instability. Finally, the link between propaganda and war was highlighted. Narratives in conflicts continue to be a sophisticated weapon and an arena of confrontation in their own right. Non-military but no less insidious for that, the participants commented.

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