Non fiction

51 episodes

Cameroon: Boxing your way out of misery and into a new life

Cameroon has produced world champions in boxing and Mix Martial Art (MMA) in recent decades. All were trained in the popular neighborhood of New-Bell (Douala). A new generation of young boxers dreams of imitating the world champions who have passed through the boxing hall that has become dilapidated. The main objective: to expatriate through their talent to better earn a living.

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French, Jewish, and Leftist: The Dilemma of Belonging in Divided Times

Even long before the bloody terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, followed by the atrocious carnage carried out by Israel in Gaza, I felt, like many leftist Jews, this difficult tension: being caught between a minority, my own, increasingly shifting to the right, and my political camp, increasingly permeable to anti-Semitism, far beyond any anti-Zionism. Today, it is a true heartbreak.

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Love Rediscovered 

Before falling in love with a man or a woman, don’t we first fall in love with love itself?

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The Struggle of the Glaciers

An ever-racing pursuit of profit and the conquest of nature, some sought to build an additional cable car on a retreating glacier. In response, others mobilized, occupying the glacier for days—despite the hardship, the cold, and the repression. Paul tells their story.

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Invisible Cities

Sarah uses the occasion of recent discoveries in the Upper Amazon to reflect on how we imagine "the wild," weaving together imperial, scientific, and indigenous histories to explore how the natural world can resist our attempts to silence it.

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After the Sorbonne Nouvelle blockade, the awakening of the collective

In the current political climate and the urgent need to be mobilised, Adil looks back at his first experience of resistance: the blockade of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2018.

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Motherhood

In a world where work shapes our lives and motherhood remains an invisible struggle, how do we decide when it’s time to give life? Through personal narratives and societal pressures, Jenny reflects on choices, sacrifices, and what truly shapes our desires.

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Oleander

From Jaffa to Paris, Darya traverses landscapes and eras where the shadows of the past mingle with echoes of a childhood shaped by the sea and conflict.

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The Usurped Struggle of the Farming World

They block highways, but who truly understands them? Farmers, caught between pastoral clichés and harsh realities, feed us while crying out that it’s killing them—their struggles erased by unions that fail to represent them. Aliosha, born on the Larzac plateau but now a city dweller, questions this distance, where the hum of tractors conceals what really matters.

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