Les Français vus depuis l’Italie à l’époque du populisme. Et vice versa. Les résultats des dernières élections présidentielles françaises et des dernières élections législatives italiennes ont poussé les deux pays à se positionner sur des pôles opposés de la dialectique politique et culturelle. 2018-06-29

Avant que la canicule nous brûle le cerveau Les écrevisses de la rivière luttent contre la boue qui les emprisonne ; lorsque ce coin de la rivière sera lui aussi complétement sec, elles mourront dans la prise de la boue transformée en ciment. Un couple de Chinois, profitant de la situation, se donne à la chasse aux écrevisses qui zigzaguent dans l’eau basse. 2017-07-18

The multiple faces of Lebanon and the ice cream lesson Lebanon has different faces. Not only those of the Maronite Christians of the Mount Lebanon towns, the Sunnis of Old Tripoli, or the Shia communities of the Southern coastal harbours. There is not only a cultural or religious multiple spectrum of identities in the country of cedars. There is also... 2017-05-23

Paris-Ankara, aller-retour Voici que notre incapacité d’agir en respectant le droit international, de pratiquer la solidarité de façon claire, transparente et déterminée, et de mener une politique cohérente en termes de libertés fondamentales se trouve à la base des conditions qui ont facilité la restauration autoritaire en Turquie et l’avancée d’un nationalisme défensif, discriminatoire et nostalgique en France, surtout personnifié par le Front National. 2017-04-27

Siria, il discorso del miliardario Da un compound superprotetto, circondato da lastroni di cemento incastrati in modo identico a quello del Muro di segregazione israeliano, e serrato da cancelli di ferro e sbarre pesanti quanto un fuoristrada, a Kabul, questa mattina, ascoltavo l’intervento del presidente Trump sull’attacco all’aeroporto militare siriano. 2017-04-10

Elegia aleppina Non c’è pace all’anima nostra, non c’è fossa in cui nascondere le salme. Non c’è anfratto cerebrale in cui resti memoria della Storia, non c’è stomaco per i nostri calici amari. Non c’è sazietà per i loro appetiti. Non c’è donna che non possa essere denudata davanti al marito. Non c’è donna denudata che non possa essere stuprata. Non c’è... 2016-12-15

Lettre à Paolo Dall’Oglio Les images désormais quotidiennes d’une Alep dévastée par des bombardements assassins m’ont finalement poussé à prendre plume et encre. Tu nous manques car nous sommes vidés de tout espoir, nous avons baissé les bras et assistons indifférents au recul de l’humanité devant le crime et la guerre, nous subissons impuissants la légitimation de la violence et de la haine. 2016-11-29

We, Europeans, in the era of Trump and Putin Despite the fact that Donald Trump, addressing his supporters in New York right after having received the news that he would be the new president, said: “It is time for us to come together as one united people. It is time”, many voiced out their hostility marching a few hours later in the streets of America against him. 2016-11-13

After the Brexit, we need a leftist populism Never Facebook has been so proliferous in offering the most disparate views on the same topic, as in the day after the Brexit referendum. Some fellows were predicting the European Apocalypse, others were vocalizing their excitement for their rewarded hate against Europe, and others were sending to hell the Brits. Some distinguished friends were writing: “In an instant of time, we got rid of English people and Cameron”. 2016-06-28

Fuck Humanity! Fuck Humanity. [Signed] Aleppo, April 28, 2016. This is what someone wrote on a wall of Aleppo while the recent bombing campaign of al-Asad’s regime was going on without hesitations, with the backing of Russia, after having buried the ceasefire and started doing what they have always wished to do: annihilate people to win territory. Barrel bombs, one after the other, missiles on the city’s districts controlled by the revolutionary forces. Fuck Humanity. This is the only comment we deserve. 2016-05-11

Brussels, The Day After Yesterday, once I heard about the terror attacks in Brussels, the first thing I did was to call a couple of very close friends to make sure that they were all right. In Europe, even someone who is not familiar with that city must know someone else there. One of my friends, passed by Maalbeek Metro Station 5 minutes before the deflagration took place… 2016-03-25

L’Isis e le complicità di al-Asad Gli attacchi terroristici del 13 novembre sono stati una vera e propria campagna militare. Una coincidenza che siano avvenuti alla vigilia del secondo round di negoziazioni tra le potenze interessate dalla crisi siriana? Al centro, il futuro del paese con o senza al-Asad che per re-legittimarsi a livello internazionale – ma dovrebbe essere giudicato per crimini contro l’umanità – si presenta come un baluardo contro l’avanzata di Daesh mentre invece ha interessi e connessioni comuni. 2015-11-17

Pour battre l'Etat islamique il faut abattre le régime syrien Au lendemain des attentats qui ont ensanglanté Paris, alors qu’il est question d’accords entre la Russie et la France pour combattre Daech en territoire syrien, trois observations s’imposent : tout d’abord, la récente campagne militaire russe, qui a provoqué la mort d'au moins 1.700 civils, a frappé davantage les positions de l'Armée libre syrienne, et de ses alliés du Front Al-Nosra, que celles de l’Etat Islamique. Par ailleurs Il est notoire que... 2015-11-17

Mar Elyan ou le crépuscule des Lumières Un lancinant point de douleur sur le côté de l’âme, voilà ce que j’ai ressenti le 21 août dernier lorsque j’ai lu par hasard sur al-Jazeera News la nouvelle de la démolition par les combatants de l’Etat Islamique du monastère de M?r Ely?n al-Cheikh, situé à proximité de la petite ville de al-Qaryatain, en Syrie. 2015-08-26

Eurexit! Greece is on the same time the patient and the doctor, who is forced to take drugs delivered by a multinational pharmaceutical company who look at symptoms but does not care about the causes and the effects. 2015-07-03