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In the Middle East, the curse of addiction

By Matthieu Levivier · 05 October 2023

The Middle East plays a key role in global drug production. A reality with multiple implications, described by historian Jean-Pierre Filiu in his latest book, Stupéfiant Moyen-Orient. Brief review.

Series

Are you ready to believe in the return of the «Messiah»?

By Loris S. Musumeci · 01 February 2020

Netflix imagines the coming of the Messiah

World

USA - Iran: the war nobody wanted

By Clément Guntern · January 13, 2020

What's the long-term solution?

World

Gilles Kepel: «I'm very grateful to those who sentenced me to death, because they made it possible for me to write this book.»

By Loris S. Musumeci · August 10, 2019

Islamologist Gilles Kepel has been sentenced to death by the Islamic State, but this does not prevent him from living in total freedom of thought. Here we meet a man who passes on his knowledge, and whose views on his subject are as courageous as they are rigorous.

Literature

«You can't stop a people from dancing»: when the energy of the heart wages war on despair

By Hélène Lavoyer · October 30, 2018

Les bouquins du mardi - Hélène Lavoyer Lorsque Sarah enfourche sa Part (une moto de 125cm3) syrienne en 2015, quatre...

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Egypt, re-election despite disaster

By Clément Guntern · 02 April 2018

Les lundis de l'actualité – Clément Guntern Comme prévu par tous les spécialistes, le premier tour de la présidentielle égyptienne n’a...

World

The Middle East is not out of the woods yet

By Clément Guntern · November 20, 2017

Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern The Middle East is not out of the woods yet. Tensions between...

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Iraqi Kurdistan, impossible independence

By Clément Guntern · October 23, 2017

On September 25, Iraqi Kurdistan held a referendum on possible independence from the Iraqi state. The result was...