di Sergio Attanasio English A short series on Romani, Tzigani, Turkmen and Azeri people in Chișinău, Moldova displaced from Ukraine by the Russian military invasion – April 2022. The current war in Ukraine has confirmed that some refugees are more refugees that others. As reported at the Polish border, Africans, Syrians, Afghans and Indians living […]
di Sergio Attanasio Beirut, April/May 2021 From a certain perspective, Lebanon sums up Middle Eastern dynamics and problems. From another point of view, the Lebanese civil war did not end with the Taif accords. The general amnesty given to former militias’ leaders and combatants did not put an end to hostilities between factions and sects, […]
di Sergio Attanasio The destinies of Lebanon, Palestine and Israel seem so closely linked that thinking about the vicissitudes of the Crusades, and the Crusader Christian kingdoms, is almost automatic. Although the Nakba (Catastrophe) displaced more than 700,000 Palestinians (about the Arab population of pre-war Palestine) and scattered refugees throughout the Arab world, Lebanon more […]
di Sergio Attanasio La Sicilia è proprio come la raccontano i suoi figli e padri, terra amata e addolorata; bagnata dal sole e dalle stelle; fuoco e fiamme che fuoriuscendo dall’Etna rendono aride l’aria e la tradizione, così ben custodite, entrambe, in chiese, palazzi nobiliari, sale d’attesa di uffici comunali e putie. Quel che sembra certo […]
di Sergio Attanasio The small Italian island of Lampedusa has two faces. Accordingly, the first one concerns wintertime: fishing, heavy winds, and empty beaches. The second concerns mass tourism, overbooked fish restaurants and boat parties. What do these two sides have in common? The answer is simple as it goes: migratory crisis Even if cold […]
Articolo di Sergio Attanasio Foto di Lynn Kseibi Here the 1993 comes and the American Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran publishes the second part of his “the Prophet”, a book of prose poetry fables. This second part “The Garden of the Prophet” enshrines the infamous poem “Pity the Nation” – manifesto against the corruption of soul […]
Articolo di Silvia Dizzia Foto di Sergio Attanasio Mimmo Lucano, classe ‘ 58, tre volte sindaco di Riace è considerato uno degli uomini più influenti del mondo (come si legge nella rivista americana Future nel 2016), perché è a lui che si deve un famoso modello di accoglienza verso gli ultimi, i naufraghi. Un modello […]
by Sergio Attanasio April 2020 – Catania Ali from Gambia, 25, currently sleeps inside a white truck left unused by the owner just down my place. The truck’s owner gave him the keys. I have been looking at Ali walking around the “Penny Market” (German supermarket chain) which is located down my building, since the […]
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