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CALABRIA IS A FEMININE LAND Loredana Cornero The struggle for female rights and for the recognition of women’s social role is not only Arab, Iranian, Pakistani or Indian featured, as even in Europe and in Italy women continue their silent daily struggle against a male, obscurantist power. The January issue of NOI DONNE magazine, published in Italy, was dedicated to Calabria and its women. Women who try, in their daily life, to act and work honesty, protecting their dignity and integrity. They work as journalists, mayors, magistrate and sometimes they even come in contact with the 'Ndrangheta, the notorious criminal organization “governing” this splendid and troubled land. Tiziana Bartolini, the magazine’s editor, collected in this issue the stories of women such as Alessandra Cerreti, Elisabetta Tripodi, Roberta Lanzino, a special tribute to all the women fighting with strength, courage and determination against all mafias in Southern Italy. Translation: Laura Punzo JOUMANA HADDAD AND THE MYTH OF LYLITH Tina Trodella Joumana Haddad is one of the most important Lebanese writers and she is well-known all over the world thanks to her several books which have been published and translated in many languages. This famous writer is a woman who embodies the spirit of the biblical Lilyth: a rebel virgin who has never accepted compromises and impositions. For this reason, Haddad is not only a writer and poet but she is also the editor of the literary magazine called “JASAD” which means BODY. This magazine deals with many sexual and non-sexual taboos as its aim is to provoke the chauvinist Lebanese culture and at the same time it functions as a stimulant for women to claim their liberty and their rights. In 2010, Haddad published her autobiography “I killed Shahrazad” where she tries to deletes/change the myth of Shahrazad who is the narrator of “A thousand and one nights” as in the Western culture, Shahrazad is known as a fascinating woman who tries to seduce the furious king Shahryar and avoid her death by telling him a tale every night. In the Western world, Shahrazad is considered as a sex object and a victim of the king destined to die. However, in the Arab culture, as Haddad has demonstrated, Shahrazad is a clever woman who in the end the king marries. So Haddad, linked to this conviction, has ideally killed Shahrazad in her book and she claims that women have to fight for their rights without using seduction to obtain what they want. For this reason, Haddad says that she incarnates the spirit of Lilyth, a virgin who refused to marry Adam and was irremovable and determined not to yield. In addition, she denounces the conditions that a woman must accept to live better and she fights against these restricted cultures. She claims that a modern Arab woman is equal to an Arab man as she is independent, clever, professional and in her relationship she has the same influence and the same decisional power of her partner. In other words, Haddad affirms the equity of the sexes and this cannot be negotiable. She tries to fight against the false Western and Eastern stereotypes about Arab women according to which they have no rights and they are submitted to their husbands. She presents a totally different picture where we can see how free and independent Arab women are today. Nov.12/Fév.13
Samir Kassir: The Arab Malaise MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES: CULTURE AND ARTS COLUMN BOOKS A short book on the malaise of the Arab contemporary world, facing a political and cultural decline after its past golden age. As Kassir himself wrote: “There’s no pleasure being Arab today. Some Arabs feel persecuted, while others hate themselves.” With these words, Kassir launches his polemic, making it clear from the very start that his book is not a guide to political action but the strong personal opinion of one Arab intellectual. Clara Camerlingo Synthesis of the French review by Giulia D’Argenio Valentina Colombo: Parola di donna, Corpo di donna. Joumana Haddad (Lebanon), Ghada Samman (Syria), Haifa Bitar (Syria), Ni'mat al-Behairi (Egypt), Hiyam al-Mefleh (Saudi Arabia) are just some of the names of the authors of the 31 stories collected in the book "Woman’s word, woman's body," created by Valentina Colombo, professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Tuscia, and published by Mondadori in 2005. This anthology is the evidence that women themselves took hold the word, pen by addressing topics as varied as sex, polygamy, war. All sensitive topics that are dealt with in a decisive and direct way: ".. they are women who have lost their fear, women who do not whisper, but they speak aloud ..." says Colombo. Laura Punzo Abraham B. Yehoshua: The Liberated Bride Joining the lines of this novel sounds like heading out on a journey. A journey through cultural identities and the history of a permanent conflict opposing two populations. A journey across Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority Territory as well as the private life of a family. Rivlin, the main character of the novel, is a tender man seeking explanations for the end of the marriage of his son Ofer and the wife Galia and for the cruelty of the war opposing Palestinians to Israelis. During his search, Jerusalem, that is quite a border between reality and metaphysics, represents both the arrival and the departure point of Rivlin’s trip, struggling with past ghosts. He is obsessed by the event of Ofer divorce, as he was repudiated by his wife with no clear reason. All along his journey, Rivlin faces unexpected situations. As he goes on, he comes across the Arabs and the intensity and poetry of their culture, enveloping and frightening him. As the same, the author alternatively uses Arabian and Hebrew in writing tales and poems, to envelop the reader and directly involve him. Two different worlds chase each other, a pursuit reaching its climax in the episode of Dibuk, during a poetry festival in Ramallah: “Muzijat ruhuka fi ruhi kama - Your spirit is made of mine”. Abram Yehoshua builds his novel painting feelings and material. He uses different styles and narrative techniques, mixing dialogues and monologues through a two voices narration. Alter ego 45 La Maison des Idées • 1
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