Tag: Near and Middle East
Israel: behind the government’s call to arms, the risk of slippage
Friday, January 27, shortly after the start of Shabbat, Alqam Khayri, a 21-year-old Palestinian, opened fire on Israelis returning from a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, a Jewish neighborhood in East…
Iran: Reza Pahlavi, the enigmatic son of the Shah who sees himself as the savior of democracy
Even in Paris, many of them give him “your majesty” when they address Reza Pahlavi. On his presentation card, the word “prince” precedes his name. At 62, the son of…
Israel-Palestine: daily fear of a third intifada
Each day has its own spark, closer to igniting the Israeli-Palestinian fire. At the start of 2023, clashes between Palestinian groups and the Israeli army are daily and attacks are…
Turkey: the earthquake that can shake Erdogan
For days, the port of Iskenderun has been burning. The double earthquake of February 6, of magnitudes 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale, devastated this Mediterranean city, and all…
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: death toll exceeds 8,700
The earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria on Monday February 6 killed more than 8,700 people, according to the latest official reports published on Wednesday. Authorities in both countries reported…
Deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Turkey and Syria
The search for survivors continues. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday, February 6, killing more than 284 people. in both countries and very significant…
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…