The daily
stories from Upper Galilee published in "La
Repubblica" in 2006 have now become a book: 29 days
of war from July 16 to August 14th 2006 “hoping for
the impossible”, the dream of a peace common to
the entire Middle East.
"This
book is the prayer of hope during the terrible days
of war that we lived through in the summer of 2006.
It is a Diary with daily entries written by a mother
who struggles and strives to give courage to other
mothers... During my life I have devoted my energies
to education to dialogue, the reception of others
and peace through the arts [...]
While the delirium of the war rages around me,
daughter of an ancient Roman Jewish family [...] I
have to resort to all of my internal strength, to
all of my imagination and patience, to be able to
continue my task and nurture trust in
life. I have four children and, in that summer, two
of them were doing their military service. [...]
Like a charm I am helped by an old friend,
journalist of "La Repubblica", who asks me to write
my feelings as a mother, an educator and as a woman
in those days of anxiety: thus the Diary from the
Galilee came to life."
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