Incroci di civiltà - Samah Karaki

Palazzo Grassi and Incroci di civiltà, the international literature Festival in Venice in its nineteenth edition, organized by Ca' Foscari University, present at the Teatrino the author Samah Karaki (Beirut, 1984). 

In her new essay L'empatia è politica. Regole sociali e biologia dei sentimenti (Empathy is Political: Social Rules and the Biology of Feelings), published in March 2026 by add editore, the author uses neuroscience and social science to explore how empathy is losing its role as a moral compass and becoming a political and social construct, shaped by cultural historical and political structures, as well as by media.  

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