(July 5, 2016) Miriam is a young Jewish girl born in Israel and raised in London in a secular family. One day, she meets Khaled, a Palestinian Arab who asks her to follow him to Ramallah to meet a dying man. Who is this man? What connection does he have to her? To find out, one needs to read Elisabetta Ranghetti’s novel titled “Beyond the Sea of Haifa” (Oltre il mare di Haifa) (312 pages, €15, published by EdiKit). As part of a series of events titled “Meet the authors” organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, Elisabetta Ranghetti’s debut novel will be presented on Thursday July 7 at 18:30 at the ICI in Haifa (Rehov Meir Rutberg 12, German Colony, Haifa) in the presence of the director of the ICI Maurizio Dessalvi. Elisabetta Ranghetti, class of 1977, graudated in Modern Literature from the University of Pavia. She enjoys travelling, taking pictures, painting and most of all, reading. She travelled to Israel and Palestine for the first time in 2005 and since then she visits Jerusalem every year to pursue studies rabbinical hermeneutics and to learn more about the area and Hebrew. She has been writing since a young age and has collaborated on several journalistic articles about cinema and Middle Eastern affairs. “Beyon the Sea of Haifa” narrates the complex relation in a contested and and undisputable fascinating land. She talks about the pain that the two populations are suffering who despite their historical complexities, try to live their lives often dreaming of escaping to the other side of the sea, their only certain horizon. (PO/red)
