Imma Vitelli

is an international correspondent for Vanity Fair Italy. She joined Vanity Fair in the summer of 2006 covering the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon; ever since she has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Congo, Syria, Libya and many other countries. This year, she gained rare access to North Korea, and reported from its capital Pyongyang.  

She is the author of Tahrir, a book about the demonstrations in Cairo that led to the resignation of president Hosny Mubarak.