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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…
Vivian thinks about the past March 8ths, those who resisted before her and those who are still fighting. From Buenos Aires to Paris, from Tehran to silent prisons, the same battle is…
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…
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…
To his great surprise, Pierre Mao, a still confidential author, is chosen by mistake to sit on the jury of a renowned literary prize. Flattered to be among such prestigious names, he…
The tranquil atmosphere of a suburban suburb on the West Coast of the United States. An ordinary morning for an ordinary man. A quietude interrupted by a black teenager knocking on his…
Sometimes it takes several meetings to find each other. Sometimes it even takes 10 years. Time to be adults.
She ran up the stairs, in a hurry to find the one she loved. When she opened the door, she found a full suitcase and a cold man.
A mysterious woman fascinates. It is said that she was one of the mortals who knew ancient verbs and alphabets.
Marika Guibert is "brand manager "at Prop, a brand of hygienic products. Today is a big day for her: it's "brand development day" for dishwasher tablets. A day that should earn her…
Individuals from elsewhere try to understand what led to the collapse of humanity on Earth.
As a black woman and an accomplished actress, how will our forty year-old protagonist enter the world of online dating after the failure of a long relationship ?
Health crisis, political crisis. Existential crisis. Everything is fine in Sao Paulo. To save the country from chaos, she must kill her grandmother. Acid chronicles from the Latin American country most affected…
From London, where she has lived for several years, Emily Ochoa sees her country embrace a destiny she did not imagine.
Summer 2023. In author's residence, Karim, originally Parisian, discovers the contrasting realities of Saint Michel, a district in the east of Montreal. Paradoxical dive between mimicry of US gangsterism and - apparently…
It's a great day for Mathilde, a young journalism intern. She is preparing to meet and interview the next great star of French cinema, Elias Seidah.
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…
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…
In a café in Buenos Aires, a man and a woman meet through shared readings. What fate awaits them?
Before falling in love with a man or a woman, don’t we first fall in love with love itself?
New York, 2020. She had just met Ian. For the first time in a long while, since her divorce in fact, she liked a man. Truly. The beginning of a relationship becomes…
She thought she’d found the perfect partner: charismatic, passionate, and sharing her Jewish identity. But as their conversations turn into heated debates over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their ideological differences come to light.…
Being a French North African woman of Muslim culture often means living for others at the expense of personal mental health. In this inner struggle, Rahma asks: how do you stay true…
Growing old means reversing roles. Pamela wonders about this delicate, decisive moment when the child becomes the guardian of the adult he once admired.
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…
At dawn on Contrebandiers Beach in Rabat, Morocco, men walk the shoreline. But who are they, and what are they searching for? Hajar returns to the places of her childhood to uncover…
People often said that he’d never won anything. Not one point, not one contest, not one bet, not one loto. He’d never won the trust of a friend or the heart of…
In 2012, Helene* went to a psychiatric hospital for the first time in Copenhagen, while she was finishing her studies in philosophy in Denmark. Her thesis focused on psychosis through the lens…
Restaurants that employ people with disabilities are opening in cities like Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lisbon, and New York. Beyond simply providing job opportunities, the goal is to integrate these workers into the…
Diadié is often asked if, in the near future, he plans to write entire novels in Soninke or Bambara, following the example of other African writers who have embraced their mother tongues…
Why is learning Arabic important today in France? Take me as an example: learning Arabic has not only made me aware of the French bias that I grew up with, but it…
In Lebanon, a country in full collapse, it is impossible to have a romantic encounter without politics interfering in the relationship.
Joy Majdalani grew up in Lebanon, where marital and domestic affairs are governed by religious and patriarchal laws that systematically disadvantage women. Having witnessed her parents’ divorce, she has long abhorred the…
What happens when from one day to the next, we find ourselves exiled from a city or a person, unable to go back to the place where we were happiest?
It starts with a plane, a poem and the most beautiful city in the world. Linked destinies in the streets of Paris, from the fountain of Saint-Michel to the Place des Vosges.
With the death of Diego Maradona, Argentina mourned the loss of one of its founding myths. For one Buenos Aires woman, it was a more intimate loss, reminiscent of an adolescent love,…
Maud lived a painful relationship. A love story with a man who made her suffer. During long months, she did not manage to put words on this relation. "The hold", is the…
There are those people who are locked up behind bars. Deprived of freedom. And those who are locked out. Deprived of their loved one.
For almost a year now, teleworking has become the rule around the world. A new norm that is shaking up relationships between colleagues and ending informal lunches and coffee breaks. For better…
She is the little sister, the younger daughter, the little princess. The one people like to pamper and spoil. For Clarisse, her little sister represents violence. The one who, one day, started…
We call them boatmen. In the shadows, these freshwater sailors contribute to the delivery of goods essential to the country’s subsistence during these times of health crisis . An encounter on the…
Maud Serpin, author and daily consumer of social networks, until this use turned into a second job. To abide by the rules of the algorithm and produce always more, is it really…
Their parents are not rich, Parisian or in the law themselves, and they have suffered the consequences. Burnout, doubts, unfairness… long before their first steps into the job market, these students have…
How can a tiny piece of paper — an identity card — have such an impact on a life, an identity? What does it signify, what does it really change for the…
In the spring of 2021, an 11-day war between Israel and Palestine erupted, initiating a period of anxiety and anger for the approximately 260,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. However, this conflict is…
Nurturing the world’s greatest football players along with Sao Paulo, the Paris region and its 12 million inhabitants, is a hotbed of talents. From the urban fields across the city to the…
2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut, the two Stanley Kubrick classics could never have existed without "This Virus from Space", the only film ever released by the American director.
In Dakar, the precarious status of small shops and entrepreneurs is severely strained by the virus-induced psychosis.
Paul is 21, he is a recent graduate from a major business school and currently doing an internship in a consulting firm. What should be the beginning of a great carrier leads…
When my father-in-law insists on going to the office when the whole world is in lockdown, my whole vision of work is questioned.
From the depths of Yvelines to the south of the Seine-Marne, the inhabitants of Île-de-France often embody a rurban lifestyle in which a diversity of landscapes and identities abound. So far from…
In the first episode, Paul, 21, had just discovered the dreary reality of "bullshit jobs" while being an intern. He has now finished business school and his classmates are willingly accepting to…
4 days in Reims to explore with French high school students their representations of Africa. The experience turns out to be progressively chilling for Ysiaka.
For some, Charles has never been a guy, a “proper” guy. He has a soft voice, bursts out laughing with his hand over his mouth and bears no interest at all in…
Javier was born on the same day as the Mexican national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus. An almost harmless date until statues started to be taken down.
Deborah is mixed race, she has frizzy hair. Melanie is white, her hair is curly. The two journalists mix investigation and personal testimony to understand how racism has always been, and still…
The two neighboring countries of the Maghreb have each experienced their ownHirak (movement in Arabic) in recent years: in 2016 for Morocco and in 2019 for Algeria. Two women and a man…
As a de facto bilingual country, Ukraine is a home to many Russian-speaking families. But ever since the invasion started, young Ukrainians who speak Russian gradually forsake the language of their parents,…
Upon her return to Réunion Island, Laura noticed the all-too-real and devastating effects that climate change has had on her homeland. Yet how does one push the environment discussion to the forefront…
Pamela travels to Ecuador to find the man she loves and get to know him better. But after long days spent alone waiting for him, she finds that her image of him…
The Cours Ozanam opened in Marseille in 2014 as a member of the non-contract private school network Espérance Banlieues. Through social diversity and Scouting-inspired teaching methods, the school fosters values such as…
When foreign friends introduce him to the music "back home", TJ Benson seeks to understand how this local music, which he used to listen to in Nigeria, has become so globalized as…
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.
In 1998, the Bolivarian revolution came to power and brought with it the dream of a popular and participatory democracy. A quarter of a century later, Pamela, a young writer from Caracas,…
Working in a laundromat is one of the dullest jobs on earth. To entertain herself, Dolores tries to imagine the lives of the strangers whose shirts she cleans, to the point of…
A divorced couple meet in a café. It's a chance to rehash the story of their failed marriage while they wait. But what are they waiting for?
The mysteries of the New Yorkian group ‘The Wu-Tang Clan’ are as great as their members’ rap sheets. Lil Louis, a film student from Brooklyn, embarks on an amazing adventure to make…
Last October the Instagram page @balance_ton_bar ("snitch_on_your_bar" in English) denouncing GHB attacks in bars and nightclubs in Brussels appeared on social media. On Twitter and Instagram, comments from Belgian and French victims,…
On the 30th of January 1972, around 150,000 Catholics participated in a peaceful protest in Derry (Londonderry for the unionists) to demand the same rights as protestants, resulting in the slaughter of14…
When Narendra Modi took over the reins of India in 2014, his desire to promote his country's cultural singularity to the world felt like a mockery to Western hegemonism. Done through exploiting…
They are young people in their twenties and define themselves as conservative and patriotic. Their first concerns are assimilation, security and putting a stop to immigration, as they believe they’re losing France,…
Dawn breaks over the city. Four couples navigate through love. By dusk, their world has shifted.
In Marseille’s northern districts, an ex-McDonald’s brought about a minor revolution. During the first quarantine, it became a food aid platform. Now, the site requisitioned by hundreds of volunteers, plans to become…
In his bedroom as a teenager in Paris, Karim dreams of Bristol, the city of the legendary rock group Massive Attack, symbol of this rebellious spirit. More than 20 years later, he…
An Irish artist colored and - above all - altered photographs of victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide, adding smiles to their faces. Vice made an article of it. The story could…
Kashef has been in exile for years in Berlin, far from his country, Egypt. A forced exile for one of the leaders of the 2011 revolution and who is now hunted by…
To fill the fridge serenely, withdraw cash at the ATM or simply look ahead towards the future; all trivial things that aren’t taken for granted anymore in Fadia’s family. The Lebanese revolution…
December 17, 2010 is the beginning of the Tunisian revolution with the immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi and what will later be called the "Arab Spring". But how were these revolutions told? And…
On October 27, 2005, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, two teenagers from Bas Clichy, died by electrocution a few meters from their home. They took refuge in a transformer to escape a…
Two points of view of history face each other from the middle of the 19th century. Saint-Louis, or Ndar, depending on the person speaking, is a place of rival memories about colonization.…
October 2019, the Lebanese had hopes for change and questioned the foundation of their political system. September 2020, it is a year of crisis and delusion, highlighted by the explosion in Beirut…
From her headphones to her readings and her meeting with teenage girls from La Celle Saint Cloud, Eva, journalist and author, shares with us a subjective photograph of the feminist questions that…
Vannak has been feverish for a few days. The news on television is clear: we are in the midst of a new global epidemic. So, Vannak will celebrate his 38th birthday in…
In a Buenos Aires building, going down the staircase becomes a voyage through space and time for one of its inhabitants.
They don't know each other and are very different, yet confinement will have the same effect on these two neighbours: to reveal the ghost buried in them.
Fabio pictured a classic job interview. Only, in front of him, it's Don Osvaldo Marchetti, the big boss of Five Aces Financial. And when Fabio talks about a special book that has…
Born in the United States in 2017, this pro-Trump conspiracy movement, which had only a few hundred followers at its inception, now has thousands around the world. Three stories to better understand…
Karen has already defeated diseases! So it's not a small Chinese virus that's going to scare her. Especially when her President is the strong Donald Trump.
While worrying about the future of his business during the lockdown, Issam receives a call that upsets him: his grandmother is sick. Time's ticking.
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