Mavi Boncuk |Mirella Galletti[1], Fuad Rahman, Kurdistan. Cucina e tradizioni del popolo curdo, Torino, Ananke, 2008, pp. 111
Published by Ananke Editori |
ISBN: 8873252206 | ISBN-13: 9788873252207
Marco Polo (1254 – 1324), famous for the first “world trip”, met Kurds in Mosul on his way to China, and he wrote what he had learned about Kurdistan and the Kurds to enlighten his European contemporaries. The Italian Kurdologist Mirella Galetti, sorted these writings which were translated into Kurdish.
The book is divided into four parts: a historical introduction to the Kurdistan, history and cuisine of traditional foods, poems and stories related to the kitchen, a number of Kurdish traditional recipes. The poems are accompanied by Arabic text, as well as the names of the traditional recipes. (translated from Italian)
[1] Professor Mirella Galletti, eminent specialist in Kurdish studies and active member of the Kurdish Institute of Paris since its foundation in 1983, was born in 1949, near Bologna, in Italy. She received her PhD. in Political Science in1974, at Bologna University with a thesis on “The political structure and cultural values of Kurdish society”.
Ever since the 1970s, she has travelled to the Middle East, especially in Kurdistan, to carry out her research work. When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, she was in Teheran. The following year, Mirella Galletti secured a press card and was one of the first Europeans to interview Abdullah Ocalan, in June 1988 in the Lebanon, and in 1988 she met the Iraqi Kurdish refugees who had fled from the Anfal campaign.
Since the 1990s Mirella Galletti has been teaching Kurdish history and civilisation at Bologna and Trieste Universities, while continuing to make long visits to Iraqi Kurdistan and taking part in University symposia in various countries. During the 2000’s, she has been successively teaching the Law of Islamic communities at Venice’s Ca' Foscari University and the History of Transnational Peoples of Western Asia at Milan-Bicocca. University. Appointed Professor at Naples Orientale University, she has been teaching Arab and Moslem History there.
She passed away on September 4, 2012
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