Sunday with Arundhati Roy - 2 October 2011

Written by: Alexandra Muglia to 23:32 of 9/30/2011

 A destination for those who do not yet have programmes for the weekend or for those who can still review: Ferrara today opened the International film festival. Three days of meetings and debates with the big names of international journalism and world culture in the historical centre of the beautiful city of Emilia. The host of this edition is, at least for me, the writer and activist Arundhati Roy, who has called ] A destination for those who do not yet have programmes for the weekend or for those who can still review: Ferrara today opened the International film festival. Three days of meetings and debates with the big names of international journalism and world culture in the historical centre of the beautiful city of Emilia. The host of this edition is, at least for me, the writer and activist Arundhati Roy, who has called "embarrassing" the recent revolution led by Anna Hazare, compared to wrong, according to her, to a new Gandhi. The appointment with the author of "the God of small things" is Sunday at 16.30 at the Teatro Comunale.

This year's protagonists are some voices of Arab spring: Ziad Majed, political activist of the leftist Lebanese and Egyptians Issandr el Amrani, founder of The Arabist, and Hossam el-Hamalawy, author
Arabawyblog. And then the new femminismi, with the philosopher Michela Marzano, the Spanish writer Beatriz Preciado and British journalist Natasha Walter. Take center stage, among others, the British intellectual and journalist John Berger Jason Burke who will speak about Al Qaeda after the death of Bin Laden. With focus on the forthcoming elections in Argentina with Horacio Verbitsky, on Russia's Putin with Novaya Gazeta reporter Yulia Latynina and investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, on work and precarious with the Secretary General of the Cgil Susanna Camusso.

Source: http://parolaallautore.corriere.it/2011/09/domenica_conarundhati_roy.html#

*This article has been automatically translated from Italian to English. Any errors are due to the translation.