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Rahma Nur

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Rahma Nur

Rahma Nur, born in Mogadishu and a naturalized Italian, is a Black, disabled woman poet, storyteller, and elementary school teacher. In 2012, she won the Torino Rotary Club's seventh Torino Mole Antonelliana Award with her story "Volevo essere Miss Italia" (I wanted to be Miss Italia), published in Lingua Madre 2012—Racconti di donne straniere in Italia (Lingua madre 2012—Stories of foreign women in Italy). Her stories and poems have been published in numerous magazines and books, among them El Ghibli, La macchina sognante (The dreaming machine), Formafluens, and Crocevia.

Articles by Rahma Nur

Linguistic Threads, translated by Alta L. Price
By Rahma Nur
Afro-Italian poet Rahma Nur describes her experience as a member of a diaspora living in Italy, noting how language marks the body and how it shapes one’s sense of loss.As you make headwaybetween…
Translated from Italian by Alta L. Price
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Linguistic Threads, translated by Candice Whitney
By Rahma Nur
Afro-Italian poet Rahma Nur describes her experience as a member of a diaspora living in Italy, noting how language marks the body and how it shapes one’s sense of loss.In the step that you takeBetween…
Translated from Italian by Candice Whitney
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Linguistic Threads, translated by Barbara Ofosu-Somuah
By Rahma Nur
Afro-Italian poet Rahma Nur describes her experience as a member of a diaspora living in Italy, noting how language marks the body and how it shapes one’s sense of loss.In that step you takebetween…
Translated from Italian by Barbara Ofosu-Somuah
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