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29/03/2024
En face de Sam l’Américain, il y a Joy la Parisienne.
Un père et une fille, tous les deux immigrés de la première génération. Elle n’a rien bâti sur le royaume de son père et a décrété que tout commencerait par elle. Et lui aussi. Une fille d’immigré, immigrée ailleurs.
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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.
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.
The Wall In Our Eyes
There are walls we can't see, invisible walls that draw lines in our minds. Walid discovers them on vacation on the beaches of Zeralda, where the horizon seems to separate Algeria and France. It's only in Mexico City, when he meets Italian Giuseppe, that these borders become blurred, revealing that identity is built on encounters and memories, far beyond the lines drawn on a map.