Leïla Miñano

Journalist, Paris

Leïla Miñano studied international public law, political science and journalism in France. She’s a member of Youpress, a freelance collective based in Paris covering international news around the world. She has reported for several media outlets such as Vanity Fair, Mediapart, Libération, Marianne, Le Parisien Magazine and Le Figaro Magazine. She has written two books : “La Guerre Invisible”, about sexual violence in the French military (with Julia Pascual, Les Arènes, 2014) — this work led to a governmental national plan against violence in the army — and “Le Sacrifice de Palmyre” (Grasset, 2016) an investigation about the fall of Palmyra in Syria.