Thursday, April 2 at the library Modusvivendi Palermo meeting with the writer Italo-Somali Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, author of the novel small Mother, published by Frassinelli, which was awarded the Premio Vittorini 2008. Cristina Ali Farah was born in Verona in 1973 by Somali father and Italian mother. In three years she moved with her family in Mogadishu where he attended a school of Italian language. In 1991, the civil war, was forced to flee and take refuge for several years in Pécs, Hungary. He later lived in Verona, to settle finally in Rome where he lives and where he degree in Literature from the University La Sapienza. Since 1999, deals with intercultural education aimed at students, teachers, and migrant women. Her short stories and poems are on anthologies and magazines such as, among others, New Topics, 900 Notebooks, Pages, Sagarana, Coffee. In the novel Mother small Farah Ali addresses the issue of the Somali diaspora through three characters, two women-and Sunday-Barnes and a man-TAAG-the events which act as a grid to pass through two decades of Somali history and the Italian side. Three lives of deserters faced with the difficulty of finding a geographic location after the disintegration of their country and with the loss of cultural values \u200b\u200bwhich they referred. Their voices emerge from the disappointment at the lack of true laws on asylum in the countries in which they settle and the awareness that migration is only a necessary evil.
