Fatima was born in Beirut. She had no intention of leaving Lebanon but was forced to leave because of her country’s economic and sociopolitical crisis. Once graduated from the University of Beirut Arab in civil engineering, she chose Italy. “I started over from a bachelor’s degree program in Business Management, in English, at SAA in

Shuyi Yang was born in 1991 in the city of Wenzhou, China, and came to Italy when he was 10 years old to be reunited with his family. He currently lives in Turin, where he grew up, studied and now works. He speaks Italian, English and Chinese “in that order, in the sense that the

Anna Khairullina is from Bugulma, Russia. She is 32 years old and speaks Russian, Italian, English, Portuguese and French. In 2011 she came to Italy out of “curiosity”, as a tourist and volunteer for various ecological and social projects. “Italian culture and way of life” were the stimulus. Today she lives in the small village

Imtithal Gibriel is 53 years old and from Sudan. She arrived in Italy in 2019, invited by the University of Turin to participate in a research project in bacteriology. She graduated in microbiology, and received a PhD in bacteriology in 2014. In Sudan, she was an associate professor at the Sudan University for Science and

Born 29 years ago in Macedonia, Marija Bozhinoska arrived in Italy, specifically Ravenna, in 2011 with her mother and sister. The journey was a long one. “We had a lot of stuff with us, clothes, suitcases …,” she tells us. The three women joined their father, who had immigrated to a town in Romagna five