Ingy Mubiayi

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Ingy Mubiayi
Born
Ingy Mubiayi Kakese

(1973-06-27) 27 June 1973 (age 50)
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Writer, language teacher
Years active2000–present
Known formigrant narratives

Ingy Mubiayi (born 27 June 1972) is an Egyptian-born Italian writer. She focuses her works on migrants and has become a voice of the Italian-African diaspora. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers for her work "Documenti, prego". In addition to her writing, Mubiayi teaches Italian and Arabic and has worked as a translator.

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Biography

Ingy Mubiayi Kakese was born on 27 June 1973 [1] to a Congolese father and Egyptian mother in Cairo, Egypt, where she lived until she was four years old. Moving to Rome, Italy, in 1977, she first attended a French school as her spoken languages were French and Arabic. When her sister was confused by the multi-lingual household, her parents imposed a rule of only speaking Italian and she lost her earlier two languages. [2] Mubiayi attended the Sapienza University of Rome, graduating with a degree in the History of Islamic Culture. In 2000, she opened a bookshop called Modus Legendi in the Primavalle neighborhood of Rome focusing on intercultural and migrant literature. [3] In 2003, Mubiayi began teaching Italian to immigrants with the Association Sociocultural Villa Carpegna and since 2004, she has taught Arabic at the 1° Circolo Didattico "P.Maffi". [1]

Mubiayi's works discuss the experience of second-generation Italians, who are both part of and separated from Italian culture. Her stories evaluate what it is to be Italian in a world where migration, [4] gender and racism differ among cultures. [5] In addition to writing for anthologies, she has published works in the journal Internazionale and served as a translator. [3] In 2004, she was the recipient of the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers for her work "Documenti, prego" which then appeared in the anthology La seconda pelle. She hosts a radio show on Vita Trentina Radio discussing identity. [6]

In 2007, Mubiayi jointly edited and published with Igiaba Scego a series of interviews with Afro-Italian writers about their migration experiences entitled, Quando nasci è una roulette: Giovani figli di migranti si raccontano (When You’re Born It’s a Crapshoot: Young Children of Migrants Tell their Stories). [7] In 2009, she was a featured speaker at the International Women's Day presentation in Capannori with her work, Parole migrate (Words Migrate). [8]

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