Oriana Fallaci: An Italian Case

الارتباطات الخطيرة للإسلاموفوبيا

Bruno Cousin (1) , Tommaso Vitale

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

We need to analyse how the journalistic field and the Italian intellectual world work; from the editorial world and the mechanisms which have produced the best sellers in Italy between 2001-2006, as well as the existence of a contemporary “Fallaci moment” which is connected to the “Berlusconi moment” in politics. The heroine of the ‘60s and ‘70s had by then become a racist Erinyes. Oriana Fallaci, by now stuck with a solitary Islamophobic way of thinking, has been transformed without any scruple into a media circus animal by editors; it is these very ones who, instead – along with the journalist/writer’s colleagues, intimidated by her prestigious reputation and by her acrimony – could have and should have exert a minimum amount of peer review in her articles (before or after publication).

Keywords: Islamophobia; Intellectuals; Journalism; Racism

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Sociology

Bruno Cousin, Tommaso Vitale. الارتباطات الخطيرة للإسلاموفوبيا. Reset, Dialogues on Civilizations, 2008, 734. ⟨hal-03570510⟩