Luigi Farrauto (Milan, 1981) has a PhD in Design and is a cartographer. Always passionate about geography and the Middle East, he first published Senza Passare per Baghdad (Voland, 2011). Since 2013 he is a Lonely Planet's author: he has written several guides (including Milano, Beirut, Albania, Belgrade, Napoli e Pompeii) and Guida per salvarsi la vita viaggiando (2016). He collaborated with Mondadori writing some chapters of geography textbooks for secondary school. He was a visiting researcher at MIT in Boston and lecturer at various Italian universities. He lived in Porto, Amsterdam and Doha. Today he is based in Milan, where he has opened a design studio specialized in cartography and wayfinding. In his spare time, he studies Arabic and Chinese.