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Scrivere di Islam, Raccontare la diaspora (2020)
“The two authors ‘disturb’ us, the readers, who are suddenly forced to question their own political, historical and cultural position vis-à-vis the kaleidoscope of today’s contemporaneity. Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora does not only give a methodologically concrete way of decentring binary oppositions—of scholar/writer, academic research/creative writing, colonizer/colonized—but it also challenges the notion of knowledge itself. As both authors agree, eventually, decolonization can happen when dialogue and continuous exchanges of memories and experiences are ongoing between different subjectivities”. Anna Finozzi, Annali d’Italianistica, 39 (2021): 570-571.
Books
Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora. (Venezia: Cà Foscari UP, 2020).
Edited Volumes
Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Islam and Me. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2023. An extract of the book, edited with Jessica Lott, is available on Wasafiri. Magazine of International Contemporary Writing. 2022.
Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Lontano da Mogadiscio/ Far from Mogadishu (Milano: Laurana, 2013).
Chapters in Books
[with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel] “Lontano da Mogadiscio and Nuvole sull’equatore: Memory, Point of Views, Language and the Market”, in Minor/Minority Literatures in Europe, ed. by Godela Weiss-Sussex, Margaret Littler and Sarah Arens (Cambridge: Legenda, 2023).
“Questions of Authoriality and Literary Meticciato in Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora”, trans. by Cecilia Brioni, in Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives, ed. by Ron Kubati, Marie Orton and Graziella Parati (Teaneck, MA: Fairleight Dickinson UP, 2021), pp. 179-189.
Introductions
“The Forgotten Italians: Meticciato and the Legacy of Colonialism in Clouds over the Equator”, in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Clouds over the Equator (United Kingdom: Createspace, 2017). 193-204.
'"Un dialogo che non conosce confine né di nazionalità, né di razza, né di cultura”: temi, impatto e ricezione critica di Lontano da Mogadiscio' / '“A Dialogue That Knows No Border Between Nationality, Race or Culture”: Themes, Impact and the Critical Reception of Far from Mogadishu', in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Lontano da Mogadiscio/ Far from Mogadishu (Milano: Laurana, 2013), pp. 171-199; 361-389. Foreword.
Interviews (interviewer)
‘Orientalism and Former Italian Colonies: An Interview with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’ in Orientalismi italiani, ed. by Gabriele Proglio (Torino: Antares, 2012), pp. 215-225.
Interviews (Interviewee)
Maria Morelli 2025 "Cultural Stereotypes, Literary Agency, and Postcolonial Writing: A Conversation with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni." Modern Languages Open, 2025(1): 1 pp. 1–11.
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