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Frictions is about journalists, writers and podcast producers, based in France and abroad, with unique background like the stories they tell us.

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Laure Delacloche

Arriving in Lebanon almost by chance in 2011, Laure Delacloche's mind has never quite left since. She enjoys dissecting the complexity of this country and then narrating it through human stories. Laure is a freelance journalist specializing in solutions journalism. In 2023, she published "Comprendre les Libanais - Un guide interculturel" with Riveneuve Editions.
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Loïc Barrière

Loïc Barrière published five novels, among which Rizières sous la lune (Vents d'Ailleurs, 2016), Le roman d'Abd-el-Kader (Les Points sur les I, 2016) and Le Choeur des enfants khmers (Seuil, 2008). He is also a journalist at Radio Orient where he hosts literary and political programs.
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Katharine Smyth

Katharine Smyth is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her essays and articles have appeared The Paris Review, Elle, The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Point, DuJour, Poets & Writers and Dominoamong other publications. Her first book, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, was published by Crown in 2019 and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Credit Photo: Frances F. Denny.
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Sofia González Bonorino

Sofia González Bonorino is an Argentinian writer. Her last novel: Mi cliente (Editores Argentinos, 2015).
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Sergio Montanino

Sergio Montanino is Italian, with the head in Rome and the heart in Spain. Theatre and travels are his biggest passions. He believes that creating stories help the people to free themselves from the grey cage of reality and realism.
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Moussa Diop

Graduated from the French Press Institute in Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Moussa DIOP was, for about ten years, correspondent for the Senegalese daily newspaper Le Soleil in Paris. Former member of Le Monde and RFI, he also holds a degree in History and in the Image of Africa in French textbooks.
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Alexandre Berteau

Born in Le Mans, Alexandre, 24, is a graduate from the CELSA Journalism school and had worked for Le Monde, Le Figaro, or Le Dauphine Libéré in Grenoble.
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Javier Toscano

Javier Toscano is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer. His work has involved a continuous quest to generate and collaborate with minorities, groups with disabilities and other communities towards the production of alternative narratives of self-affirmation and vital exploration. He was a founding member of Laboratorio 060 with which he won the first prize of the Best Art Practices Award (Bolzano, Italy, 2008) More information on javiertoscano.net
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Diego López de Gomara

Diego López de Gomara was born in Buenos Aires. He is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Among other works, he has published the novels Patria Paria (Grupo Editor Latinoamericano) and La Mujer Escrita (Grupo Editor Latinoamericano).

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