Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Widad Tamimi Italy

- 5.30 pm

Fondazione di Venezia - Palazzo Flangini

Widad Tamimi

converses with Alessandro Cinquegrani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Fondazione di Venezia, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore

The conversation will be in Italian

Widad Tamimi (Milan, 1981) is a journalist and writer of Jewish-Palestinian descent. She grew up in Milan, studied International Law in London, and has worked in refugee camps. She founded the association Ioien, dedicated to awarding scholarships to young people fleeing war zones, and collaborates with several Italian and international newspapers and magazines. In Italy, she published Il caffè delle donne (2012) and Le rose del vento. Storia di destini incrociati (2016). Her latest book, published by Feltrinelli, is Dal fiume al mare (2026).