Pour devenir président, plus besoin de faire ENA ou Sciences-Po , plus besoin de galérer dans l'opposition. Tu fais ton coup d'état, tu organises des assises pour tout légaliser et te donner un mandat cadeau. Puis tu organises des élections que tu vas gagner.
Epicétou.

Here's the lecture on antisemitism I delivered at Queen Mary College in honour of my old friend and great historian and source of humane wisdom, Lord Hennessy youtu.be/PZicf8iZbBg?fe…

Bulk of gold smuggled from Africa exported to UAE, says report via Financial Times
[Among African nations, Mali, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast had the largest volumes of undeclared gold production, the report said.]
⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ ⁦Mihr Thakar⁩ ⁦Charles Onyango-Obbo on.ft.com/3wLO7HB

La Dolce Vita poster in Italy, 1960

#Presse « Ces tranches de vie hautes en couleur offrent, dans leur diversité, un portrait touchant et sincère de la société tunisienne. » Femme actuelle

📖 'Confidences tunisiennes' de Marie Nimier ➤ gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALL…

[“So much of history is built on states of exile”, “physical movement” & the creation of “homelands”, she said, adding the emotional attachments we’ve placed on to this sense of place & belonging can “pervert our knowledge of what is actually the case”.] theguardian.com/books/article/…

[“I’ve never had that claim to any place and I think that we should try to think about the fact that we really are all passing through,” she said.]
⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ I couldn’t agree more. theguardian.com/books/article/…

[Appearing at the Hay literary festival in Powys this week, Lahiri, who writes in English and Italian and has translated her own work, said she thinks our global “obsession” with what is original or authentic is “very problematic”.]
Aly-Khan Satchu Ditto. theguardian.com/books/article/…

['Where are you really from?' is a question that J. Lahiri gets asked “all the time”. Yet the Pulitzer prize-winning author…can’t answer it. “I don’t have that specific set of coordinates that mark me as who I am,” she said. “I’ve many pieces to myself.”] theguardian.com/books/article/…

[Thaksin would be the highest-profile case among more than 270 prosecutions in recent years under the controversial lèse-majesté law, which carries a maximum jail term of 15 years for each perceived insult of the royal family.]
Cc:⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Migrant Mother, 1936
Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)

Florence Thompson, de 32 años, trabajadora migrante y madre de 7 hijos, con sus hijos en un campamento de trabajadores migrantes en Nipomo California 1936.

[‘The army should get to know their enemy better than they do.’ If we had known the Taliban better as individual people, is there a way that we could avoid them taking full power?”]
Fazit: 'If we had known the Taliban better…'
Cc:⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

['It is worse now than when I was there,” she says, with the ban on girls’ education extended to all girls over 11. “Ariana sent me a video of her beautiful little sister,” she says. “Very bright and intelligent and cute. It was her last day at school.] theguardian.com/books/article/…

[“They’d heard that women go around naked in Norway…She gestured to a skirt length above the knee & the women winced. When she told them she had travelled alone, they asked: “How come your family doesn’t love you?”]
Aly-Khan Satchu Patriarchy in full gear. theguardian.com/books/article/…

[Was The Bookseller of Kabul mentioned, I wonder? “I always mentioned it,” she says. “But of course the Taliban don’t read secular books – and they had plenty of other things to worry about.”]
Cc:⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ ⁦Geneviève Goëtzinger⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

[“I told the minister,” she says, “that I was looking for a high-level Taliban commander to speak to for this book. And he laughed and said: ‘No one’s going be in your book. We don’t talk in our movement.’”]
Cc:⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ ⁦Mihr Thakar⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

Yezidi kidnapped were chained by lSlS terrorists who kidnapped them.

lSlS chained them to torture them.

lSlS kidnapped 7K Yezidi women and children,still 2703 Yezidis are missing.

10K Yezidis were killed for refusing to convert to lsIam.

Dear ⁦Alison Ngibuini⁩ current reading list #Twitterbookclub

['The problem is that the world is run by old people,' he said, 'who forget what they were like when they were young.']
⁦Fazit: A breath taking interview.
Cc:⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ reuters.com/world/americas…

['I do not defend drug use. But I can't defend the ban as it is, because now we have two problems: drug addition, which is a disease, and narcotrafficking, which is worse.']
⁦Aly-Khan Satchu⁩ ⁦Mihr Thakar⁩ Worth reading. reuters.com/world/americas…