A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue
Investigative journalists in North Africa are being hunted, hacked and harassed, but they haven’t stopped telling the truth A troubling wind is blowing across the world. From Europe to the
Short work at one of Cognac’s ‘Big Three’. France’s cognac industry is buckling under the double whammy of tariffs and other trade measures placed on it by China and the
The fustigations of a French architect in Vietnam. It’s not so fanciful to view architecture as a kind of language, a system which forms the structures in which people live
A French journalist visits a rebel leader who has swapped words for guns in his fight against the military regime In Burma, notes journalist Guillaume Pajot in an article for Revue XXI, “poetry
An exploration of Vodou as a system of thought and a means of understanding the world through Haitian poetry and literature Vodou, at its core, is a religion of oral
A French journalist explores how far-right religious factions are challenging the Israeli army from inside “In the history of Israel, the army has never been factional”: writes French journalist Sylvain
A French journalist talks about his time as a hostage in Mali, and how he sees the future Oliver Dubois tried to escape from his captors in Mali four times.
How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports
A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where
A French perspective on the performative power games of Donald Trump The beginnings of Trump’s second term as President of the United States have been eventful. A brutally disruptive tariff
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