Delphine Minoui

Award-winning author and journalist whose work focuses on the Middle East. Born in Paris in 1974 to a French mother and Iranian father, she has lived and worked in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Egypt. She is currently based in Istanbul (Turkey), where she works as a correspondent for Le Figaro newspaper. Besides her commitment to journalism, for which she has received the Prix Albert Londres 2006, she has written six books, including "Tripoliwood" (Grasset), "I'm writing you from Tehran (Le Seuil, newly translated in English and published by Farrar Straus and Giroux). In 2018, she turned her latest book, "The book rescuers of Daraya, a secret library in Syria" ("Les passeurs de livres de Daraya, une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie" - Le Seuil / Prix des Lectrices de ELLE 2018) into a documentary, "Daraya: a library under the bombs", which has been aired on France 5 TV channel and granted the Grand Prix and Prix du Jeune Public at the FIGRA Film festival 2019. Her film has also been selected at the FIPA Festival.