Today Zanzana came back from the Survival Compromise and found a gift: an envelop, coming from the US, containing “Graffiti of Uprisings”, by the young blogger, journalist and activst Hani Na’im, about the graphic representations of Arab Springs through street art.
Graffiti of Uprisings, Zanzana’s Copy
This is the second gift received thanks to this blog, the first is described here. For sure Zanzana is not making money with that, but she receives valuable gifts 🙂 This one is due to Octavia Nasr‘s generosity: Zanzana has translated into Italian two articles by this journalist, “Maryam: un nome, due storie – prima parte” e “Il 2012 Anno della Donna Araba?” , and she had the impression she liked this. One day our friend Octavia mentioned on her Facebook page that she had three copies of the book for her most committed readers: Zanzana bravely took the initiative, and wrote her that she would have liked to receive a copy. Octavia replied that the book was in Arabic and Zanzana reminded her that this would not have been a problem! After a couple of weeks, the book arrived, Zanzana is really surprised and mostly grateful to Octavia Nasr for this. For sure we will talk again about this book and its author, for the time being you can find some information here. Zanzana now enjoys reading a book in Arabic, with a dedication for her, which does not happen so often in Milan. It is true that we can have access to anything online, order a book in any language and receive it at home, but there is a difference with having a walk in a bookshop in Beirut or in Damascus. Zanzana wonders if the bookshop in Damascus, close to Hotel Semiramis, where she was going quite often, is still open: unfortunately, she does not remember its name.
ZANZANAGLOB 