"Warda dell’egiziano Sonallah Ibrahim: storia di una guerrigliera"

The study focuses on the novel Warda published in 2000 by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim. The female protagonist is a freedom fighter who narrates her experience in her diary. Dedicated to the movements of the Arab left, this historical novel covers two periods: one goes from 1957, shortly after the Suez War, until 1975, when the Dhofar insurrection ends; the other is the year following the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis. Warda is a partisan of the Dhofar guerrilla warfare, one of the lesser known conflicts of the twentieth century, which the author illustrates without neglecting the most important war events in the Arab world and internationally, not failing to refer to the Palestinian tragedy. The work describes the post-Cold War era, marked by globalization and US unipolarity, in the context of which the Middle Eastern peace process initiated at the Madrid conference in autumn 1991.