Alae Al Said: "Write Palestine to Break Down Barriers. Literature Helps to Resist"

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Literature is a weapon against colonists, "because it is the words, even before rifles, that colonize the minds, occupy territories," says Alae Al Said. At a historical moment when the international order seems to succumb to the predatory aims of the powerful, the Italian-Palestinian writer recalls how important it is to tell in order to defend the collective memory of oppressed peoples. Born in Rome in 1991, from Palestinian parents, Alae recen…