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Slavonic Tales on The Sacrifice of the Son

  The Bulgarian story The three brothers and God invites us to reflect on how the character of oral literature is both transnational and specifically...

George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four

  Nineteen Eighty-Four tells of a future world in which the earth is divided into similar Hyperstates in perpetual war with each other. The protagonist Winston...

Rahman Baba: The Poet of Mysteries

Virtually unknown in Italy, Abdul Rahman Baba is one of the most loved and revered poets among the Pashtuns from Pakistan and Afghanistan.      He...

Anna Ettore – Libya

When the war in Libya broke out, we started working again. Sea arrivals on Lampedusa island and on the southern Italian shores had picked up...

Silvia Accorrà – Pomerania

As we climb towards the north, towards the Alps, feeling our way along the Grenoble road to get to Lyon and then up again,...

Anna Ettore – The Gypsy Night

That was my first time there. It was the end of February; the gypsy camp had been reported in the fields behind Chiaravalle abbey....

The Border

Crossing the border: crossing the frontier, going beyond the border line. An interpreter, similarly to a translator, is always a symbolic boundary: he/she lies between...

Ahimaaz Ben Paltiel and the Book of Descents

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the discovery of a manuscript found in the Library of Toledo Cathedral by Adolph Neubauer, a librarian...

Ahimaaz Ben Paltiel – Resurrection

9d. I will now proceed to tell of the wonderful things that were done by R. Hananeel. He had a cousin, named Papoleon, who died very...

Alamut by Marco Polo

CHAPTER XXIII. CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.   Mulehet is a country in which the Old Man of the Mountain dwelt in former days; and...