This is Beirut, 15/02 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has been sued in France for invasion of privacy by Saâda Arbane, an Algerian woman who accuses him of stealing her story to form the core of his novel Houris, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt last year. This lawsuit, also reported by the French media outlet Mediapart on Friday, has its first procedural ...
This Is Beirut, 09/02 19:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, handed over to President Joseph Aoun an invitation from his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to visit Algiers. “Algeria and Lebanon have a shared history full of solidarity, cooperation and mutual support on issues of concern to our two brotherly peoples. Our positions have ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tunisia Algeria Africa Culture Art Cinema
"If you can't go to the cinema, it will come to you" might well describe CinemaTdour, a mobile cinema truck touring Tunisia to make the seventh art accessible to everyone, from rural areas to underserved neighborhoods. Dozens of workers joyfully step down from a large red truck parked in front of their factory in Djemmal, a central-eastern town ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-17 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Boualem Sansal, who has been detained since mid-November for "threatening state security," was transferred to a medical care unit, his publisher and lawyer in France reported on Monday. Speaking at a solidarity event held in a Paris theater, publisher Antoine Gallimard and lawyer François Zimeray addressed several hundred attendees. “We ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-15 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Algeria's foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to reprimand him for what it described as efforts to destabilize the country, several Algerian media outlets reported on Sunday. The ambassador, Stéphane Romatet, was "informed of the firm disapproval of the highest Algerian authorities in response to numerous French provocations and ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 2024-11-24 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The arrest of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal upon his arrival at Algiers airport on November 16 has sparked outrage across the literary world and beyond. At 75 years old, this committed intellectual, who became a French citizen in 2024, is known for his courageous stance against Islamism and totalitarianism. His detention by Algerian ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-22 17:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Algeria France Boualem Sansal Islam Literature
French President Emmanuel Macron is concerned about the "disappearance" of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, his office said, after reports that the prize-winning novelist had been arrested in Algeria. Sansal, a major figure in francophone modern literature, is known for his strong stances against both authoritarianism and Islamism as well ...