QI was led to the program in Rai Talk to me I often invited Miriam Mafaiwriter, journalist but before still activist, partisan etc. etc.
At the time it was said (and alas someone still says it) that the scarce female presence in the talk-shows depended on the exploit number of competent women in circulation to be able to exhibit in front of the cameras.
In reality the figures were there, but underneath they were considered less “authoritative” in the fields traditionally invaded by males. Do you want to put a multidecty newspaper director? And in this case it did not matter if it was ahead with the years, indeed better, surely the seniority would have given prestige to the interview, so much the pink quota could always be represented with a young actress in promotion.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Stereotypes and hard prejudices to die that Miriam’s presence on the red sofa swept away in a whale. Because in addition to being an extraordinary journalist she was also a free, curious and very ironic woman who broke out in a sound laugh every time I asked her provocatively if she had ever thought of running for the office of President of the Republic. Still, it would have been a president to go really proud of but perhaps the times were not yet ripe, if he ever will be.
“And never run away. Miriam Mafai, the secrets and struggles in the storm of history” of Annalisa Cuzzocrea (Rizzoli).
Remember Miriam Mafai in this country without memory is a duty and does it with And non escape never (Rizzoli), a beautiful and passionate book, the journalist Annalisa Cuzzocrea who received Miriam’s daughter as a gift from Sara, A precious box full of letters, memories and pages of unpublished diary with which he was able to reconstruct the intimate and political biography of Mafairetracing the events of our country together with its exciting history.
From the Roman Resistance to the foundation of the Italian Communist Party, from the birth of the newspaper the Republic where he was among the first journalists, to love outside the moralist rules of the time, “The red girl” has always sailed with her head held high, and she has never been afraid to go against the current in order to follow his principles, and above all never betraying his stainless consistency.
Champion of intellectual honestyquality that should be remembered and taught in schools as much as the Bible, Miriam Mafai Gigante in the poverty of today’s political landscape And we miss his witty and competent pen that would have been able to decipher for all of us these difficult times because, as he wrote, “the world has changed, for the worse or for the better it does not matter, it is here that we must live”.
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