Claudio Pacifico
Claudio Pacifico is an Italian career diplomat. During his career, he has worked in numerous European countries, the United States, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He was posted to Iran during the Iranian Revolution; to Somalia; and to Bangladesh, where he was the youngest Italian ambassador in history. From 1997 to 2004, he was Italian ambassador first to Sudan, and then to Libya. Since 2007, he has been the Italian ambassador to Egypt and Italy's Representative at the Arab League.
Pacifico has written extensively on international politics, publishing articles and books on a range of subjects including the Iranian Revolution, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Italian foreign policy towards Asia and Oceania. He has organized expeditions off the beaten track, from the Persian to the Australian deserts, from the Hindu Kush to the Karakorum, from the Gobi to Papua New Guinea, from the Tibetan Plateau to the Himalayas, from the Andes Ranges to the Bengal and Yucatán jungles, but, above all, into the Sahara, over a span of approximately forty years. Pacifico has published several travel journals, particularly on the Sahara. His last book, Dieci Anni in Egitto Libia, e Sudan (Ten Years in Egypt, Libya, and Sudan) was published by Sharqiyat in 2010.
Pacifico has contributed to various travel magazines, including Sahara, itinerari e passioni. He is committed to environmental conservation and has contributed to several projects for the preservation of the delicate ecosystem of the Sahara, supporting the establishment of national parks in the Acacus Mountains and Jebel Al Uweynat in Libya, and the Gilf Kebir Plateau in Egypt, while backing sustainable development projects in the oases of Siwa, Kharga, and Dakhla, in Egypt. He has promoted research and restoration missions, particularly in the Gilf Kebir, in the world-famous Cave of Swimmers and Foggini Cave, in Wadi Sura. [1]
Books
- La Rivoluzione Iraniana, 1983 Rome (The Iranian Revolution).
- Somalia, Ricordi di un mal d'Africa italiano, 1996 Città di castello (Somalia, memories of Italian nostalgia for Africa).
- Somalia, Ricordi di un mal d'Africa italiano (2ª Ed.),1996 Città di Castello (Somalia, memories of Italian nostalgia for Africa).
- Bengala, 2000 Citta di Castello.
- Sabbie Perdute, 2003 Citta di castello (Lost Sands).
- Diario Sahariano, 2004 Tripoli (Sahara Diary).
- Con i Tuareg a Timbuctu e nel Sahara, 2005 London (With the Tuareg in Timbuktu and the Sahara).
- Sahara, nel Regno della Fata Morgana, 2007 Città di Castello (Sahara in the Realm of the Fata Morgana).
- 10 anni in Egitto, Libia e Sudan, 2011 Il Cairo. (Ten years in Egypt, Libya, and Sudan).
- Le isole della benedizione, 2012 Il Cairo. (The Blessing Islands).
- Along the Nile, through the Sahara, Il Cairo 2012.
References
- ↑ Pacifico, C. "Biography". www.ambasciatoreclaudiopacifico.it/. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ↑ Pacifico, C. "Books". www.ambasciatoreclaudiopacifico.it/libri.html.
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