Tag: Near and Middle East
Iran: in the face of repression, art as an act of resistance
He is one of Iran’s most emblematic and famous filmmakers: after six months in detention, Jafar Panahi yesterday began a hunger strike to protest against the conditions of his imprisonment.…
PODCAST. What is the intifada? The Express explains everything
This week, Xavier Yvon and Corentin Pennarearear, specialist in the Middle East at L’Express, explain to you what is the intifada that we fear will see a resurgence in the…
Israel-Palestine: the disappearance of the peace camp
The Israeli press dubbed this cycle “the spiral of bloodbaths”. Since the beginning of the year, Israeli soldiers have carried out daily raids in the West Bank to hunt down…
PODCAST. How Bashar al-Assad renews alliances on a field of ruins
In this new episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon analyzes a potential Pyrrhic victory for the Syrian dictator with Corentin Pennarear, journalist at the Monde service of L’Express, and Fabrice…
‘We are simply avenging our martyrs’: In Jerusalem, bloody days and fear of escalation
In Silwan, below the Esplanade of the Mosques, surveillance cameras scrutinize every street corner, providing all the country’s media with chilling images of Saturday morning’s attack. Hiding behind a yellow…
“We risk our lives to go to school”: in Afghanistan, the resistance goes through women
For Mahjub Habibi, 31, going out alone is an ordeal. Pride too. Because in the Afghanistan of the Taliban, who came to power on August 15, 2021, it is prohibited.…
“The Iranian regime must disappear”: meeting with the nephew of Ayatollah Khamenei
The family resemblance is not immediate. With his slight Ch’ti accent, blue tie, clean-shaven face and good nature, Mahmoud Moradkhani shares few similarities with his uncle, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.…
Israel: attack on a synagogue in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip bombed
In the aftermath of the Israeli raids that killed ten Palestinians in the West Bank, tension is at its peak this Friday, January 27. The day was marked by Israeli…
Burning of a Koran: this affair which poisons Sweden’s membership in NATO
“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back”, for the Turkish pro-government daily Sabah. On January 21, Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish right-wing extremist, who has a habit of insulting Muslims,…
Repression, religion and subsidies: Erdogan’s plan to win the presidential election
The countdown has begun for the most important election of 2023. During a speech last Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan released the fateful date of the presidential election in Turkey: it…