The history of Palestinian refugees from 1948 to today, retraced for the occasion by the professor of contemporary history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Maria Chiara Rioli. This is the third appointment with the historical in-depth cycle entitled “Israel and Palestine: a historical look”, an initiative promoted by the Municipality of Bulciago and curated by the historical consultant Daniele Frisco. A meeting scheduled for Saturday 11 May 2024 at 5pm in the conference room of the Bulciago Library (via del Beneficio 1), the third moment in a journey that has already hosted the historians Francesco Saverio Leopardi and Francesco Mazzucotelli, who in recent weeks have respectively explored the long-term history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its regional framework.
“Palestine: refugees of yesterday and today”: we talk about it with Maria Chiara Rioli
At the center of Saturday’s meeting, however, was the issue of Palestinian refugees from nakba, a term used in the Arab world to mean the forced exodus of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs between ’47 and ’48, up until today’s dramatic events. The speaker is the scholar Maria Chiara Rioliwho in addition to having worked in Palestine/Israel and having largely dealt with the history of Palestine in the modern and contemporary age and mobility in the Mediterranean, is also in the coordination of European projects dedicated to Jerusalem and contemporary migrations.
Finally, collateral to the historical cycle, the meeting with Egidia Beretta, protagonist of a speech focused on the commitment and history of his son Vittorio Vik Arrigoni, an activist from Bulciago killed in Gaza exactly 13 years ago. The meetings are held in the Conference Room of the Library (via del Beneficio 1) and are free to enter while places last.
