Giolfo e Hoseini

Articolo della Rivista, Anno IX, numeri 17-18, dicembre 2019

(The Great War of Mīḫāʾīl Nuʿaymah) in La rivista di Arablit, a. IX, n. 17-18, dicembre 2019, pp. 9-24. Basing ourselves on the second volume of Mīḫāʾīl Nuʿaymah’s autobiography Sabʿūn, we analyse his reflections, notes and memories relating to the Great War and especially to his participation in a military campaign in France. The absurdity of a war in which he feels unjustly involved leads him to look even at the enemy through a feeling of human brotherhood. From our analysis of Muḏakkirāt al-Arqaš, conceived in 1918 under the stimulus of news coming from the war [...]