Cristina Ali Farah 
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Rosso italian

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Strappo italian

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(con il latte) italian

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[Mi hai guardato con occhi d’amore...] italian

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[Insieme in fila...] italian

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[Aspetta, lasciami attraversare la soglia...] italian

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[Mi hai vista correre tra i girasoli stanotte...] italian

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[sono noci che non si sciolgono...] italian

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[Sono rosse le unghie...] italian

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Cristina Ali Farah 
Author

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* 29.05.1973, Verona, Italy
lives in: Rom, Italy
Cristina Ali Farah is is the daughter of a Somali father and an Italian mother. She grew up in Mogadishu and emigrated with her family in 1991 because of the civil war. After spending several years in Hungary, she has now been living in Rome since the mid-1990s.

Christina Ali Farah‘s poetry is intercultural, drawing on, among other things, her first encounters with the poetry of Somalia, where the oral tradition is still the main method for disseminating poetry today. This focus on orality is also inherent in her performances, which sometimes verge on Spoken Word. In some of her poems Farah mixes Italian and Somali to make a bilingual weave of sound. Her texts, whether prose or poetry, frequently deal with the topic of migration.

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As well as being a writer, Cristina Ali Farah also teaches Somali language and literature at the University of Rome and writes for journals such as Internazionale and the Vogue Black Blog.