Tag: International book
“India, a fragile giant”, by Olivier Da Lage
The India of Gandhi and Nehru, founded 75 years ago on secular principles, is increasingly dominated by the Hindu nationalism of the BJP, the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra…
“Wine in China is experienced as a luxury product, but it is disconnected from the terroir”
“Tibetan Antilope Castle” is how a wine estate located in Bordeaux in France, was renamed after being bought by Chinese investors. As the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party…
“How does a couple of African-Americans without stories come to hijack a plane?”
Panthers and Pirates. African-Americans between class struggle and Black Power is the true and unknown story of Melvin and Jean McNair, two African-Americans from North Carolina who, in 1973, take…
“In China’s rearview mirror, India’s image keeps shrinking”
A retired diplomat, Shyam Saran was the number two in the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi, and India’s ambassador to Beijing. He is the author of several books on the…
“The Circle of Terror”, by Céline Martelet and Edith Bouvier
After the fall of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, the jihadists reorganized, still posing a threat. Among them, French jihadists. What have they become ? What future…
“The left in Israel, conversation between generations” by Ouri Weber
Ouri Weber is a sociologist, member of Kibbutz Yekhiam, in Israel, which he joined in 1966 with a group of the socialist Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzaïr. This summer, he…
Cinema, the Nazi regime’s weapon of mass distraction
As soon as Hitler came to power, the regime wanted to compete with American productions, to find the Dietrich of Nazi cinema. But he found himself faced with a haemorrhage…
When Iran held America hostage
41 years ago, the staff of the United States Embassy in Tehran was released on January 20, 1981, after 444 days of detention. First 66 then 52, the hostages will…
“The Netanyahu Years – Israel’s Great Turn”, by Jacques Bendelac
He marked Israeli political life for three decades, and continues to do so. In The Netanyahu Years – Israel’s great shiftJacques Bendelac retraces the career of this man of power,…
Family secrets amid the overthrow of the regime in Albania
In 1990, when the Albanian dictatorship was overthrown, Lea Ypi was 11 years old. In his story, Free, a child and a country at the end of history published by…