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Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She received various prizes…
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culture · Italian journalist and author (1929–2006) · war correspondent · politician · writer · journalist · conspiracy theorist · partisan · also Oriana Fallaci, Fallaci
Born 29 June 1929 · Died 15 September 2006 · Q153700
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2024· 1 entry
A biographical novel, Oriana: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci, was published by author Anastasia Rubis based on the true story of Fallaci's career and personal life
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2018· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend
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2017· 1 entry
Yahoo: How Oriana Fallaci's Writings on Islamism Are Remembered—and Reviled
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2011· 1 entry
The "Oriana Fallaci Award" for young journalists was established in Tuscani, in her memory
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2007· 2 entries
The New Criterion: The revision of Oriana Fallaci
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Vanity Fair: Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview
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2006· 12 entries
The Guardian: Oriana Fallaci
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Died 2006-09-15.
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The writer talked about her attempt to create a caricature of Mohammed, following the polemic relating to similar caricatures that had appeared in French and Dutch newspapers
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“Europa nie jest już Europą, ale Eurabią, która z powodu uległości wobec wroga, islamskiego nazizmu, kopie swój własny grób.”
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“„Człowiek tęskni za czymś, co jest iluzją, a gdy już to otrzyma, zdaje sobie sprawę, że była to iluzja.”
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“„Być może słusznie jest myśleć, że cel uświęca środki, ale jeszcze słuszniej jest myśleć, że moralność jest niezbędna, by być idealistami” – Oriana Fallaci”
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“If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.”
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“Se pensi ad esempio che quell’ubriacone di Yeltzin è stato uno zar e quell’ignorante di Walesa è stato un simbolo di Libertà, ti senti mancare il fiato. Ed è un fatto che negli ultimi decenni la nostra epoca ha partorito soltanto due leader: Karol Wojtyla e Bin Laden. (wł.)”
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“Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon... I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.”
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“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”
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“Nie mamy nic do stracenia, bo wszystko już straciliśmy. Temu, kto stracił wszystko, nie ma sensu mówić „Bądź rozsądny”.” – Faruk Kadumi; Abu Lotuf (Ojciec Delikatności)”
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“The first thought a Western woman has when she arrives in a rigorously Muslim country like Pakistan is that she appears to be the only woman to have survived a tsunami that has washed away all the others.”
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2005· 3 entries
Read an interview with Rino Fisichella in Corriere della Sera and contacted him
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“If the Muslims build this Islamic center, she will blow it up with the help of her friends”
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Said that Europe was no longer Europe but "Eurabia"
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2004· 1 entry
In her 2004 book Oriana Fallaci intervista sé stessa – L'Apocalisse, Fallaci expressed her opposition to same-sex marriage, arguing that it "subvert[s] the biological concept of family" and calling it "a fashionable whim, a form of exhibitionism", and also against parenting by same-sex couples, declaring it a "distorted view of life".
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2003· 1 entry
Observer: The Rage of Oriana Fallaci
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2002· 1 entry
In Switzerland, the Islamic Center and the Somal Association of Geneva, SOS Racisme of Lausanne, along with a private citizen, sued Fallaci for the allegedly racist content of The Rage and the Pride
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2001· 1 entry
Wrote some articles and books critical of Islam that gained popular support but also led to accusations of Islamophobia
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1994· 1 entry
“Uważam za haniebne, że we Francji – w tej Francji od Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite – pali się synagogi, terroryzuje się Żydów, profanuje się ich cmentarze. (…) Że w Szwecji żąda się wycofania pokojowej Nagrody Nobla, którą w 1994 roku otrzymał Szimon Peres, i przekazania jej w całości (…) Arafatowi. (…) Do diabła z Nagrodą Nobla i chwała tym, którzy jej nie przyjmują.”
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1980· 1 entry
Fallaci interviewed Deng Xiaoping
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1976· 1 entry
Under controversial circumstances, in a road accident
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1975· 1 entry
“Letter to a Child Never Born”
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1973· 2 entries
Interviewed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran
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Fallaci began a relationship with Alexandros Panagoulis after interviewing him following his release from prison
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for Nothing, and So Be It (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Mexican soldiers shot her three times, and left her for dead
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1967· 1 entry
Worked as a war correspondent covering the Vietnam War, the Indo-Pakistani War, the Middle East, and in South America
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1963· 1 entry
As Gli antipatici) and later with world leaders (published in the 1973 book Intervista con la storia), which have led some to describe her as "during the 1970s and 80s the most famous – and feared – interviewer in the wo
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1944· 1 entry
Was arrested and tortured at the so called Villa Triste (the sad villa) in Florence
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-06-29.
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