Paolo Manfrini, artistic director of Oriente Occidente, will lead the discussion.
"I wonder what your reaction would be if you had lived under occupation for all the years I have, or if your consumer rights, like all your other rights, were violated day and night, [...] if your village had been razed with a bulldozer, or your house demolished, if your sister couldn’t reach her school, or your brother had received three life sentences, or your mother had given birth at a checkpoint, or if you had been waiting in line for days in the scorching August heat for your work permit..."
Suad Amiry, If This Is a Life
Ramallah is the backdrop of Suad Amiry's novels. Following the success of Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, Amiry offers another war diary in Se questa è vita. Dalla Palestina in tempo di occupazione (translated as "This Is a Life. From Palestine in Times of Occupation"). Her narrative is distinguished by its biting humor, through which she recounts the story of the occupation and the brutality of guerrilla warfare interwoven with the daily family life of the protagonists.
