Tag: Story
Water on Earth and volcanoes: an intimately linked story
In this world water day, did you know that this element so precious for life, in considerable quantity on our beautiful blue planet, is partly of volcanic origin? It comes…
Israelis angry after President Zelensky’s speech in Knesset
The reactions are numerous in Israel after the speech of the Ukrainian president in front of the Israeli Parliament. The Ukrainian president compared the situation of his country to that…
Gone are their daddies and husbands: Ukrainian refugees tell their story
Pouw Vervoer from Vianen has been driving back and forth to the border with Ukraine for several weeks now to help people fleeing the war in that country. On the…
the secret clauses of the Évian agreements in 1962
60 years ago, on March 18, 1962, the Évian Accords were signed in eastern France, supposed to put an end to more than seven years of Franco-Algerian conflict. The text…
“Baba Merzoug”, the canon of Franco-Algerian discord
In the list of restitutions requested by Algeria from France, 60 years after the end of the war, there is a cannon called “La Consulaire” in France and “Baba Merzoug”…
a commemoration at the Élysée with witnesses of the Algerian war
The 60th anniversary of the Évian agreements was commemorated this Saturday, March 19 in France. A reception was organized at midday at the presidential palace in Paris. Two hundred people…
Nowruz, the Persian spring festival, an anthropological mystery
Nowruz, the spring festival celebrated this Sunday in many countries of the ancient Persian Empire and far beyond, is celebrated at the precise moment of the spring equinox by more…
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, seated on the blanks of History
To all those who know only the silence of their story, Dorothée-Myriam Kellou dedicates her work as a journalist and independent director. Because when the file of colonial Algeria is…
the tragic memory of the “border country”
Kievan Rus’ was the cradle of modern Russia and a major European power in the 11th century. Towards the end of the 19th century, a national feeling took root there…
60th anniversary of the Évian agreements: “The conflict is rather political”
The Évian Accords were signed 60 years ago, on March 18, 1962, officially ending the Algerian war. Sixty years later, the memory still remains a wound for all those who…