Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
4. The Painful Path towards Civil Liberties and Social Justice Followed by the Iraqi Hayāt Šarārah
Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
Elvira Diana [+]
Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara
Elvira Diana is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara (Italy). Her line of research focuses on the Arabic literary production from the 19th century to present with particular attention paid to the modern Arabic literatures of dissidence, exile and prison. She has produced many scientific essays. She has been studying Libyan literature for years to which she has dedicated two monographs: L’immagine degli italiani nella letteratura libica dall’epoca coloniale alla caduta di Gheddafi (Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Roma 2011) and La letteratura della Libia. Dall’epoca coloniale ai nostri giorni (Carocci, Roma 2008).
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This chapter aims to shed light on the private and professional path towards a peaceful society built upon civil liberties and social justice travelled by the Iraqi Ḥayāt Šarārah (1935-1997), academic, writer and translator persecuted in life and neglected for many years even after her death, due to a conspiratorial political censorship.