*Mini series / First Person

What’s Left of The American Dream?

Growing up in the suburbs of Paris, Walid was shaped by contradictory images of the United States: TV shows, hip-hop, and stories where outsiders could still win — but also the wars of an interventionist power entering the family living room through the screen. In Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr.’s city, a “Black Mecca,” and a new immigrant gateway, he confronts this childhood imaginary with America today.

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HIGHLIGHTS

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Non fiction 11 min.

How War Changes Us

2022–2025: Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon. Laure, a French journalist living in Beirut since 2021, witnesses the collapse of the moral and intellectual foundations she grew up with — the very ones that shaped her convictions, both personal and professional.

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Non fiction 13 min.

Rahn or the Epistolary Geographies of a Surname

Hensli and Pamela have never met in person, but they share a surname: Rahn. Two writers whose families emigrated to Venezuela a century ago, though their paths took different directions. He lives in Berlin; she still lives in Caracas. In this correspondence, they exchange thoughts on literature, memory, and uncertainty in times of rising extremism.

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Fiction 14 min.

Are you not Nigerian ?

She thought she was escaping a toxic boyfriend and an overbearing mother when she arrived in Jalingo for her national service. But between the military discipline of the camp, the looming threat of violence, and unexpected encounters, a different question arises: where does her country begin, and where does it end?

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Non fiction 8 min.

We young French North African women are never forgiven of anything

How do you stay true to yourself without feeling that you’re betraying your loved ones?

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Long read 6 min.

Abortion in Poland: a solidarity chain against repression

It is not easy to get an abortion in Poland, but it is made easier by Natalia, Katarzyna, Gosia, and Justyna, all of whom contribute to fighting repression in their own way.

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