Giulia D Elia

Articolo della Rivista, Anno XIII, numero 25, giugno 2023

(Beyond Moscow and Washington. Soviet Russia seen by an Arab Intellectual ) in La rivista di Arablit, a. XIII, n. 25, giugno 2023, pp. 67-84. In 1956, during the Cold War, the Lebanese intellectual Mīḫā’īl Nu‘aymah travelled to the Soviet Union at the invitation of the Union of Soviet Writers. In the space of a month, he visited the cities of Prague, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Poltava and Stalingrad. The impressions produced by the contact with the new Soviet reality became a source of inspiration for his work Āb‘ad min Mūskū wa min Wāšinṭun (Beyond Moscow and Washington), [...]