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War in Ukraine: The Cultural Offensive
After the military, political, diplomatic, economic and financial earthquake, the cultural world is also organizing to condemn and counter the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its own way. Demonstrations of…
the destabilized ex-soviet republics desperately seek balance
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia worries many in the former Soviet republics. The former colonial power is often perceived there as aggressive and arrogant towards them, but also as…
Severe effects of warming in Africa require rapid adaptation, says IPCC
Biodiversity, food, health, economy… Beyond 1.5 degrees of global warming, the damage in Africa will be very heavy, estimates the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in the second…
Guy Labertit, from African politics to music
Guy Labertit has known several lives. The young sixty-eight man was successively a Spanish teacher, magazine director, national delegate for Africa of the PS, deputy mayor in Vitry-sur-Seine and finally……
the origins of modernity in literature
Ignoring the censorship that weighed on the novelist James Joyce in the Anglo-Saxon world, a Parisian publisher published a hundred years ago, in Paris, the complete version of Ulysses in…
The war in Ukraine shakes up the French presidential campaign
At 44 days from the first round of the presidential election, the campaign is hit by the war in Ukraine. Russian threats at the gates of Europe occupy all the…
“We must go further and hit Putin’s assets”
US President Joe Biden was on the phone with senior National Security officials when his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine early Thursday, February 24. Benjamin Haddad,…
The (re)discovery of the Little Prince, a moving lesson in life
For the first time, a major museum exhibition devoted to the Little Prince, a timeless masterpiece of literature. In addition to some 600 pieces on the many facets of Antoine…
With the Ukrainian crisis, raw materials are on the rise
The world markets no longer knew on which foot to dance after the decision of the Russian president to recognize the independence of the Ukrainian separatist territories. Oil, metals, wheat…
Mary Sibande, the red ventriloquist
It is a monumental installation that is presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France. The artist, Mary Sibande, will celebrate her 40th birthday in April. Her international…