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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK Gaza, and shooting stars,
March 5 - ROSE FARM - ROME

It seems to me important to get this book we present today in the context of the activities of shooting stars and issues in particular. Our association
Falling Stars is a cultural association which is focused on contemporary art. Considering the artist poet and singer of his time, we pay special attention to the social value of making art, creating spaces for events in the normal life of people, streets, homes and neighborhoods, abandoned buildings and so on. Our goal is to offer the widest possible a meeting between people and the various expressions of contemporary art. This creates opportunities for interaction and exchange between expressions of different cultures and histories, including visual arts, writing and music. We also think that it is inseparable's stance and commitment to political and social issues of our time, in 2002 we proposed the 'call a horizon of peace in Palestine, signed by artists and members of renown, to give birth to a rainbow peace, "for reflection, and production of books, writings, ideas, events and thoughts that help to promote viable projects, giving strength and dignity to the values \u200b\u200bof speech and communication, to leave space projects and dreams of life ... "This same appeal is obviously born of a constant attention to the reality of the situation in the Middle East and the desire to create opportunities for exchange between cultures and peoples, that has meant for us to carry out initiatives meeting as part of art exhibitions that we organize.
culture, and writing and then, in our opinion are one means of raising awareness and then start possible bridges of peace. We know very well as intellectuals and artists do not fear any power that wants to be unveiled faces its worst. The
EDITIONS Falling Stars are an offshoot of the Association, who lives intertwined experiences of writing, visual art and relationships between people. We make it a limited edition small books, in which the intervention of writing and visual art are interwoven without being a supporting one another. He was born recently written to read the series aimed at the enhancement of writing in books that are printed in a limited number of copies at a time, and then printed again when they are exhausted, to avoid any wastage of resources on the planet, and make available opportunities for reading and study agile and also inexpensive.
writing poetry, literature can provide evidence of reading the world much more significant of these essays and testimonies that sometimes provide support to the identification of data which leads to imagine a story in empathy with reality. In this book we realize
twisted two ways to enter into the life and history of a people, in fact, three if we include photographs of Giorgio Palmera. We have chosen three that provide a glimpse of two-fold: to those who have stained the horrible wall, and that of the photographer who took those signs. But two ways of writing and include: Ettore Masina working on the facts of reality, it reflects, connects them, examines them, part of our lives, from recent history, to lead us to understand the reality of the life of a people under occupation. He maintains a website where he regularly publishes his letters, devoted to comments and reflections on current events: is also interesting to read his other texts, a point of view of the world is always attentive and stimulating. For this book we have chosen two letters after one year and more talk about Gaza, I read the beginning of the first of May 2004, and a small piece of chapter three of the letters. 109, written just after the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. This is the comment, the message of understanding and empathy that you can try for the life of a people and its suffering.
Here are four tales of Miriam Marino, offering another way to enter into the truth: that of literature, lives, plays, shows, creating stories that are "likely", and offer an understanding from within, lead us into the daily life of Gaza. Miriam
beginning is part of Falling Stars, and his books are still significant and challenging works. He led a path of writing that is also a personal journey, taking possession of his identity as a Jew, chosen again in adulthood, and absorbed in speaking of the Mothers of Israel, the encounter between two women, Ruth and Naomi in the poetic dialogue, in write stories about the Holocaust, in memory of Amalek, and then, with Infinite Injustice, taking upon himself the two different and symmetrical pain, that of the occupied Palestinian and the Israelis, the heirs of the Holocaust, but also increasingly aware of the role of occupier and oppressor, taken from their government.
In Gaza, four stories unfold in the soul and the everyday life of Palestinian employees, but also within the soul of the occupier of the Palestinian people must be to study the Palestinians, and then becomes the figure who plays, and understands that the struggle is within oneself, between two parts of himself.
In these years I have seen the imagination, creativity Miriam expand and fly into the depths of pain and then also open to irony, that here can tell the unusual event of an old man dies of old age in his bed as a shocking news, which brings even joy, as if the normality of that fact, the natural conclusion of his life in old age, in his own bed, evidence of another possible world, give a moment of hope, a widening of vision.
Writing Miriam is often seeking to contain and regulate emotion press, rage against injustice, the suffering imposed, hypocrisy, and in a story that while based on a thorough documentation, beyond the data, interprets it, contextualizes it and return it there as a fact, a life story. His characters are living people, there is a touch of magic to manage sleep and wakefulness, the passing of days and the collective history that is described by the individual lives, the events that people go through.
One of the images that struck me is that Doll killed: March 8, approaches, and I remember the words of our song: Your doll was the weapon that created the vocation of being a woman, of being a mother, to serve a master. Well, the weapon also was killed, the symbol is shattered and the patterns that we have built to think about the female identity patterns become empty: we can not imagine that Palestinian women's identity is formed, even her doll, a traditional training tool and education, has been destroyed.

We particularly like to be here today, in an initiative to fund a women's cooperative, because of this consciousness that we have the difficulty of the Palestinian woman, the more difficult to enter into her life, her days. L 'wants to close the popular iconography within the constraints of Islamic law that closes the veil, even when the cover comes out, when it should be exposed. Yet we know and met Palestinian women active, engaged in international groups, or creative in managing the difficulties, misery, and organized to save the situation, to find small patches of life management, cooperatives, self-help groups, trade. There seems to support a women's cooperative is a good way to support the formation of a female identity active, free, which may thwart attempts of closure and oppression. Particularly significant in this moment, when the victory of Hamas in the elections seems to justify all sorts of retaliation and a robbery.