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Alberto Stabile, Renowned Middle East Correspondent, Dies at 78

Tributes highlight a career that married frontline reporting with cultural outreach to deepen understanding of Middle East conflicts

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Overview

  • Stabile launched his journalism career in the early 1970s at L’Ora after earning a jurisprudence degree in his native Trapani.
  • He served for decades as La Repubblica’s Beirut correspondent, chronicling wars and crises across the region.
  • His 1990s book Il giardino e la cenere used personal testimonies from Jerusalem’s American Colony Hotel to illuminate the Israel–Palestine struggle.
  • He contributed regular analyses on the deep roots of Middle Eastern tensions to L’Espresso, shaping Italian public discourse.
  • For years he organized cultural cycles of meetings and performances on Favignana to foster intercultural dialogue and reflection.