Very true, Rula Jebreal: “In Sanremo I took possession of my story”

“My mother’s story is unfortunately not an exception and the pandemic is showing it to us.” Connecting from New York, Rula Jebreal retraced his personal history, a guest of very true and interviewed by Silvia Toffanin. The first memory is that of his mother Nadia, who committed suicide after being repeatedly raped. “When there is a crisis, the first to pay are women. This is what continues to happen to millions of women living in war-torn countries where rape is used as a weapon of war.

Women become a target ».

The Italian-Israeli journalist works at the faculty of political science and today lives between New York and Florida. In Italy he has a piece of heart, his daughter Miral who studies photography at the Bologna Academy. “We grew up together,” says Jebreal, who went out to bookstores with The change we deserve (Longanesi). «It’s my conscience, she made the decision to go to Sanremo, she always encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, to dare. She is an artist, she tells our reality with photographs ».

The Ariston stage, where Rula Jebreal brought one of the monologues that we will not forget, was one of the moments that marked your life. “Sanremo was the moment in which I took possession of my story, when I was able and I was finally able to talk about it. I don’t like crying in public, at that moment I looked at my daughter who was in front of me and I couldn’t help myself, I thought it was right to leave room for emotion “.

Always engaged in the struggle for women’s rights, the Italian-Israeli journalist recalled how deep the pain of those who suffer violence and who cannot always find an audience is deep. “My mother committed suicide because she suffered double damage, from the rapist who was her godfather and from the state that did not give her justice.”

Before Rula Jebreal they had animated the living room of very true with their open-hearted stories Elisabetta Canalis and Ornella Vanoni (together with his little dog). The singer has retraced her career, without forgetting the dark moment in which she cured herself from depression. “If you have it, your personality remains yours, I took care of myself because it started when I was in Switzerland, I was very sad and melancholy. When I realized what I had, I immediately took action. If you take it well it won’t come back, if you take care of yourself and follow the directions. Many are afraid of changing, but they don’t change, they recover from an illness ».

As from Covid. “I had Covid, it’s like a war. We didn’t know if the bombs would hit us during the war, but at least we could stay with the family. Now we are like soldiers, we can die alone on the battlefield. I hardly ever get scared, but I’ve been terrible. I thought I was dying from a stomach ache, I got a pain in my face. My lymph nodes swelled, I had intestinal blockages, but I had a strong immune system. ‘

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