riccardo
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
La rivoluzione in Yemen del 2011 raccontata sui social network dalle scrittrici e dagli scrittori.
Articolo della rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011
Arab countries are currently going through a period of popular uprisings with no precedent in their history. Revolutions have always inspired writers and poets all over the world; and it is very likely that novels dealing with recent rebellions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria will be available [...]
Maṣriyyānū di Carmine Cartolano: il successo di un autore italiano nella letteratura egiziana contemporanea
Articolo della rivista, Anno IV, Numeri 7-8, dicembre 2014
Maṣriyyānū: yawmiyyāt muṣawwir īṭālī by Carmine Cartolano is a collection of anecdotes, in which the author himself is the protagonist. The word maṣriyyānū is the result of the union of two words: miṣrī and italiano. The author is an Italian photographer, instructor and translator, who has been living in Egypt [...]
Graphic Novels and Comic Books in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Some Remarks
Articolo della rivista, Anno V, Numeri 9-10, dicembre 2015
The Egyptians are well known for having a propensity for irony and sarcasm, and, indeed, it is no accident that they are also known as awlād al-nuktah (children of jokes). But Egyptian humour, displayed in magazines, comics and popular stories, is never without significance. It offers an important occasion for [...]
Yemeni literature and history in Ǧawlat Kintākī by ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abbās al-Iryānī: new dreams and old disillusions
Articolo della rivista, Anno VII, numero 14, dicembre 2017
The Yemeni people live in a perpetual state of conflicts and tension, it is therefore not surprising that a long list of Arab writers have been produc- ing works pertaining to the genre of history fiction for generations. Here both past and, especially, recent history become the object of narration. [...]
Muṣṭafà Mušarrafah a Pioneer of Narrative Techniques in his Qanṭarah allaḏī kafara, the First Novel Entirely Written in Egyptian Dialect
Articolo della rivista, Anno III, Numero 6, dicembre 2013
Intellectuals and writers like Ibrāhīm Aṣlān and Yūsuf Idrīs have maintained that Qanṭarah allaḏī kafara, by Muṣṭafà Mušarrafah’s, is one of the most wonderful novels ever written about the 1919 revolution. The peculiarity of Qanṭarah allaḏī kafara is that it is entirely written in the Egyptian dialect, and the author’s [...]
