Chaudement recommandé comme lecture d’été. « Des stars vieillissantes du Mosfilm bénéficient encore de l’aura d’un Ivan le Terrible titubant entre le Bd Roudaki et le Bd du Crépuscule… L’Ours hiberne; le Panda jamais. Et c’est ainsi que l’Ours maigrit. »

“Le grand orientaliste et philosophe français Henry Corbin ira jusqu'à opposer mystique persane et salafisme arabe. “A ses yeux, il y avait d’une part une profondeur philosophique chiite et de l’autre une forme d'austérité sunnite” résume Karim Emile Bitar”lorientlejour.com/article/146837…

“Dans la continuité des courants orientalistes du XIXe, l’Iran est alors construit comme un espace distinct de son environnement régional par sa supériorité civilisationnelle comme pour mieux souligner la modernité d’un régime proche de l’Occident” Sou Mardam Bey, avec Olivier Roy

“In France the Woman, Life, Freedom movement has been exploited by some secularist currents to reactivate colonial semantics inherited from the 19th century,which sees France as having a civilizing mission to emancipate Muslim women from the yoke of Islam” today.lorientlejour.com/article/146902…

Today is #BastilleDay, the celebration of the French Intifadah.

🇫🇷 🇱🇧 #14Juillet Hervé Magro à L'Orient-Le Jour: “La Résidence des Pins est la seule résidence de France dans le monde, je pense, sur les marches de laquelle un pays a été créé.” lorientlejour.com/article/146904… “L'ambassadeur a noté que « les défis ne manquent pas tant sur la question du

L'Ambassadeur de France qui nous soutient avec une grande force dans la voie de la réforme de la justice . Hervé Magro

Saif Musallat was just 20 years old. He owned an ice cream shop with his dad in Tampa. On Friday, Israeli settlers beat him to death, according to his family. Our interview with his heartbroken father & his quest for justice: cnn.com/2025/07/14/wor…

Afternoon, Sun, the Inner Harbor, Dieppe #artbots #pissarro

Strikingly, even Israel’s own defense lawyer who argued before the ICJ that no genocide was taking place is now admitting the cold hard truth, joined by 15 other Israeli International Law scholars. Denial doesn’t last forever. Truth is stubborn. Facts have a way of catching up…

A recent book on Hitler’s rise to power examines how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. nyer.cm/RPw8Yfg

I miss that Twitter bird, that logo, that soothing sky-blue color!

🎥 Superman told kids in 1949 that racism was un-American. His moral compass hasn’t changed. MSNBC writes in defense of director James Gunn: “Superman isn't 'woke', he's just kind, but MAGA conservatives can’t tell the difference.” 👉msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Here is a picture of the Palestinian home I grew up in. You can see the green gate where a traditional metal key belonging to a Palestinian family is probably kept somewhere. After talking to two researchers, they have told me this house appears in several Nakba databases, like

«Netanyahou est indigné que l'armée israélienne lui ait annoncé qu'il faudrait un an et 10 à 15 milliards de dollars pour édifier son camp de concentration à Gaza. Il veut une construction plus rapide et moins coûteuse. Qui aurait cru qu'un génocide était si coûteux et si long?»

🧢 A masterclass in marketing: take the name that tanked the world economy and slap it on merchandise!🎩 👏 Wear it ideally while giving a TED talk on crisis leadership. It’s much more than just a cap. It’s a conversation starter, a red flag, and a cautionary tale, all in one…

My Crisis Group colleague Heiko Wimmen and I wrote this piece re. the #Israel #Lebanon ceasefire in light of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack's recent diplomacy. If D.C. doesn't keep playing a hands-on role, then the situation could spin out of all control. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…