Cristina Ali Farah
Cristina Ali Farah was born in Verona (Italy) in 1973, to a Somali father and an Italian mother. She lived in Mogadiscio (Somalia) from 1976 to 1991, when the civil war forced her to flee. After a few years in Hungary, she returned to Italy and has been living in Rome since 1997. She graduated from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and still collaborates with the department of Linguistics. She also worked with children in the favela of Sapopemba, São Paulo, Brasil. Her various activities all centre around the role of storytelling in migration literature. She has published several short stories in various literary journals and anthologies and a novel, Madre piccola (2007). With Pap-Khouma, she founded El-Ghibli, Online Journal of Migrant Literature.