Oriana Fallaci

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Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [orja-ti]; 29 June 1929 – September 20, 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. She was a long-serving journalist who served in World War II. Fallaci made news around the world for her coverage of war and revolution as well as her "long, brave, and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Nguyen Thiyen Thiu, and North Vietnamese President Vên Giáp during the Vietnam War are among the interviews in her book Interview with History. Kissinger's interview was published in Playboy, with Kissinger referring to himself as "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse." Later, Kissinger declared that it was "the single most painful talk I've ever had with any member of the press." Deng Xiaoping, Andreas Papandreou, Ayatollah Khomeini, Haile Selassie, Lech Wahsa, Muammar Gaddafi, Mário Soares, George Habash, and others were among those interviewed. After returning to the spotlight after writing a series of controversial articles and books against Islam that provoked outrage as well as support.

Early life

On June 29, 1929, Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. Edoardo Fallaci, a Florence cabinet maker, was a feminist activist trying to put an end to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini's draconian tyrant dictatorship. Giustizia e Libertà, an Italian anti-fascist resistance group, joined her during WWII and became a member of Resistza. Later, she was awarded a medal of valour from the Italian army. She remarked in a 1976 retrospective exhibition of her works:

Personal life and death

At Castel Gandolfo on August 27, 2005, Fallaci had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Fallaci, an atheist, had a great respect for the Pope and expressed admiration for his 2004 essay titled "If Europe Hates Itself." Despite being an atheist, she proclaimed herself as a "Christian atheist" in The Force of Reason. Fallaci, a vocal critic of Islam, was especially after the Iranian Revolution and the 9/11 attacks. Fallaci said, "If the Muslims build this Islamic center in Siena, she will blow it up with the help of her relatives."

Fallaci died of cancer on September 15, 2006 in Florence, Italy. She was buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in Florence, Galluzzo, along with her family members and a stone monument to Alexandros Panagoulis, her late companion.

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Career

Fallaci briefly attended the University of Florence where she studied medicine and chemistry after completing her secondary school diploma. She later went to Literature, but she soon dropped out and never completed her studies. Bruno Fallaci, herself a journalist, had advised young Oriana to devote herself to journalism, but she was befolk. Fallaci began her career in journalism as a youth, becoming a special correspondent for Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. She began reporting in 1967 as a war correspondent covering Vietnam, the Indo-Pakistani War, the Middle East, and South America.

Fallaci was a special reporter for the European magazine L'Europeo for many years, as well as a column for several leading newspapers and the magazine Epoca. Fallaci was shot three times by Mexican soldiers, dragged down by her hair, and left for dead in Mexico City during the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. Her eyewitness testimony provided further evidence to disprove the Mexican government's denials that a massacre took place.

She began doing interviews in the 1960s and 1980s, first with people from literature and film (published in book form in 1963 as Gli antipatici) and later with world leaders (published in the 1973 book Intervista con la storia), which has prompted others to call her "the most popular – and feared – interviewer in the world" during the 1970s and 1980s.

Fallaci had a friendship with Alexandros Panagoulis, a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the 1967 revolution, who had been arrested, heavily tortured, and imprisoned for his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt on tyrant and ex-Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in the early 1970s, beginning in the 1970s. Panagoulis died in 1976 after a car accident, under tense circumstances. Panagoulis was assassinated by the remnants of the Greek military junta, according to Fallaci, who's book Un Uomo (A Man) was inspired by his life.

Kissinger compared the Vietnam War to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse" in his 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger. It was later reported that it was "the single most miserable talk I've ever had with any member of the press," Kissinger said. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a 1973 interviewer, interviewed her. "He sees women simply as graceful ornaments, incapable of thinking like a man," she continued, "he insists on treating them with equal rights and obligations."

During her 1979 interview with Ayatollah Khomeini, she referred to him as a "tyrant" and proceeded to reveal herself from the chador.

Deng Xiaoping was interviewed by Fallaci in 1980. Michael Rank characterized this interview as the "most speaking ever of any Chinese leader," during which Deng talked openly about Mao Mao "extraordinarily by Chinese standards," although most Western interviews with Chinese leaders have been "bland and dull."

Fallaci grew up in New York City and rented a house in Tuscany.

Fallaci wrote three books critical of Islam and Islam in general, and she told Europe that Europe is "too welcoming of Muslims" after 11 September 2001. The Rage and the Pride was the first book in Corriere della Sera, Italy's biggest national newspaper. She calls for the demise of what is now known as Islam in this book.

"sons of Allah breed like rats," she wrote in a Wall Street Journal interview in 2005, she said that Europe is no longer Europe than "Eurabia." Both the Rage and the Pride and The Force of Reason became best-selling books.

Her writings have been translated into 21 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Urdu, Greek, Turkish, Urdu, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, and Bulgarian.

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