Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was a Essayiste and Journaliste Italian born the June 29th 1929 with Florence and deceased the September 15th 2006 in the same city.

Career and biography

During the Second world war, Oriana Fallaci joint with resistance in spite of its youth, in the democratic group armed Giustizia E Libertà .

His/her father, Edoardo Fallaci, cabinetmaker with Florence, were a political activist fighting to put a term at the fascistic dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. It is at this period that Oriana Fallaci was exposed to the atrocities of the war.

Fallaci began its career from journalist at the 17 years age, becoming in 1950 special correspondent for the newspaper It mattino dell' Italia power station .

Since 1967, she worked as corresponding of war to the Vietnam, for the indo-Pakistani war, with the the Middle East and in South America. During years, Fallaci was special correspondent near the political news magazine Europeo and wrote for several important newspapers whose Corriere beyond Will be like for the magazine Epoca .

She interviewed many Heads of State and international personalities such as Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Lech Wałęsa, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ariel Sharon, Walter Cronkite, the colonel Kadhafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen CAD Ky, Yasser Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, the archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyen Van Thieu, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.

She was the partner of Alexandre Panagoulis

Fallaci received twice the Saint-Vincent price of journalism, as well as the Bancarella price in 1971 for the life, the war and then nothing , the Viareggio price in 1979 for a man , the Antibes price in 1993 for Inchallah . It obtained its arts doctorate with the Columbia College of Chicago.

She taught at the university of Chicago, of Yale, Harvard and Columbia.

Whereas it had begun its career in the laic press of left, the journalist was at the end of his life brought to the right-hand side and the Catholic church. Being defined as " an atheist chrétienne" , it was with Giuliano Ferrara one of the great figures of the " Atheistic excessively pious people " , an Italian intellectual movement which shares with the Catholic church the report of a vital need for Europe to join again with its Christian roots.

She died in Florence, at the 77 years age, in the night from Thursday the 14th to Friday, September 15, 2006. In 2005, it was accepted in audience deprived by Benoît XVI. In heritage, Oriana Fallaci gave to the pontifical University Lateran all its cultural heritage, namely its whole library.

The writings of Oriana Fallaci were translated into 21 languages of which the English, the Spanish , the French, the Dutch, the German , the Greek , the Swedish, the Polish, the Croatian and the Slovenien .

Controversies

These last years, Oriana Fallaci received a detailed media attention because of its critical sharp of Islam. She was particularly criticized by Muslim organizations and left parties, in particular in France.

After the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, it adopts a very firm position against Islam. Its point of view is specified in two tests, the Rage and Pride and the Force of the reason .

Another journalist of reputation of Florence, Tiziano Terzani, expresses his reserves with respect to the approach of Oriana Fallaci in an open letter published in the daily newspaper Corriere beyond Will be .

Critics often affirm that the books of Oriana Fallaci are purely polemical, egocentric people, based on racist stereotypes, xenophobes, islamophobes and for a great part of their contents. Many formulations of its test the Rage and Pride (Plon, 2002) are reproached to him, as “there is something, in the Arab men, who disgusts the women of good taste”, or: “Instead of contributing to the progress of humanity, wire of Allah spend their time with behind in the air requesting five times per day”. In this work, the Moslems are also compared with new crusaders and she affirms that the Imams are “in one way or another the spiritual guides of terrorism”. In connection with the mosques she writes that “especially in Italy they grouillent to the nausea of terrorists or suction terrorist”. She will know sound indeed living the expulsion of Imams of an adjoining country, the France, precisely for this reason.

She affirms finally that the Arabs under cover of migrations invade Europe to propagate Islam and she concludes by affirming that the Moslems “multiply like rats”.

In spite of these criticisms, Oriana Fallaci received the support of political parties and movements the such Ligue of north (left regionalistic with sensitivity of right-hand side) in Italy, where its books were sold to more than one million specimens.

In France, the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut declares in the Point : “Oriana Fallaci with the badge deserves not to be let intimidate by the Mensonge virtuous. It spills the beans, it endeavors to look at reality opposite. ”. The sociologist Pierre-André Taguieff written: “Fallaci aims just, even if it can shock by certain formulas. ”. Finkielkraut will conclude however that " the work is indéfendable".

Oriana Fallaci had previously started a controversy by expressing a position unfavorable to the abortion, at the time of the exit of its book Lettre with a child never born (1975).

She was elected Femme of the year 2006 by '' Front Page Magazine '', Web-magazine American (néo-conservative).

Oriana Fallaci was the subject of criminal prosecutions in Suisse for discriminatory remarks with regard to the Moslems; the federal office of justice (OFJ) had taken in November 2002 the Italy to continue it.

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