Gaza diary, Rami Abou Jamous
Rami Abou Jamous is a Palestinian journalist. Since February 2024, he has kept his Gaza logbook on Orient XXI, for which he obtained, in October 2024, the Bayeux prize for war correspondents in the written press category, as well as the Ouest-France prize.
An incredibly moving first-hand account.
An unprecedented immersion into the daily lives of Gazans.
Gaza logbook
Rami Abou Jamous
Preface by Leïla Shahid
Presentation of Pierre Prier
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
272 pages
18 euros
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Rami Abou Jamous, Pierre Prier, Leïla Shahid, Sarra Grira, December 13
« May my death bring hope », Poems from Gaza. Collective
Shockingly courageous and human, the fifty texts that make up this collection bear witness to the strength of poetry, a privileged form of Arab culture, and confirm that life always ends up winning over death: « Because we love life, said Mahmoud Darwish, emblematic poet of Palestine, as long as we have the means. »
Bilingual Arabic-French edition.
« May my death bring hope », poems from Gaza
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
Selection, translation and preface by Nada Yafi
Karim Kattan at Postface
200 pages.
10 euros.
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Naya Yafi, October 18
The collection, published by Libertalia in the Orient collection XXIpresents around fifty poems whose authors all come from Gaza. Written for the vast majority in Arabic, they were translated by the former diplomat and interpreter Nada Yafi, who also wrote the preface to the work. Palestinian writer Karim Kattan also offered an afterword to the book.
A song of love. Israel-Palestine, a French history. Alain Gresh and Hélène Aldeguer
From the presidency of De Gaulle to that of Emmanuel Macron, this work recounts more than half a century of Franco-Israeli-Palestinian relations.
It reveals not only how Paris has played a central diplomatic role in the Israeli-Arab conflict for several decades, but also how this conflict very quickly became a “ French passion », agitating political, intellectual, media, artistic and activist circles.
It is with the aim of addressing a wide audience that the authors, Alain Gresh and Hélène Aldeguer, have chosen to tell this story in graphic form (the words of the characters are all authentic). And to emphasize the “ French passion » and the national rifts that it continues to cause, the designer Hélène Aldeguer chose to play on the saturated and contrasting effects of three symbolic colors: blue, white and red. An exciting, affordable, didactic and elegant work.
New 2024 edition, updated and expanded.
Alain Gresh and Hélène Aldeguer
A song of love. Israel-Palestine, a French story
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
October 2023, expanded edition
197 pages
24 euros
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Denis Sieffert, October 2023
In a graphic story, Alain Gresh and Hélène Aldeguer recount several decades of relations between France, the Israeli governments and Palestine. We can measure the courage of the positions adopted by General de Gaulle and his progressive alignment since Nicolas Sarkozy on the colonial right in Israel. This work, as educational as it is incisive, sheds light on France's decline in this region.
Prisoner of Jerusalem. A political detainee in occupied Palestine. Salah Hammouri
Born in 1985 in Jerusalem, Salah Hammouri is Franco-Palestinian. He spent more than ten years in Israeli prisons, first wrongly convicted by a military court, then imprisoned under administrative detention (without charge or trial). In December 2022, the Israeli government signed the order to deport Salah Hammouri to France, setting a worrying precedent. In this poignant story, he recounts the prison life of Palestinian detainees and highlights the importance of international solidarity.
Comments collected by Armelle Laborie-Sivan.
Wrong Hammouri
Prisoner of Jerusalem. A political detainee in occupied Palestine
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
144 pages
10 euros
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Armelle Laborie-Sivan, September 2023
In a life story published by Libertalia in the collection Orient XXIthe Franco-Palestinian Salah Hammouri recounts ten years spent in Israeli prisons. The book has been in bookstores since August 31. We are publishing the preface by Armelle Laborie-Sivan, who collected and wrote the strong words of Salah Hammouri.
Plea for the Arabic language. Nada Yafi
With extensive professional experience linked to her mother tongue, Nada Yafi provides here a personal testimony of “ Arabic language traveler » nourished by multiple readings, sprinkled with anecdotes, on the object of this ambivalence. By illuminating for us the various facets of the Arabic language throughout history, it offers an original diagnosis of the French paradox, and ways to overcome it.
Appoint Yafi
Plea for the Arabic language
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
192 pages
10 euros
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Naya Yafi, January 2023
Interpreter, diplomat, director of the linguistic center of the Arab World Institute then responsible for the Arabic pages ofOrient XXINada Yafi publishes this January 6, 2023 in our collection at Libertalia her Plea for the Arabic language. She brilliantly deciphers the fascination-rejection to which Arabic is the subject today in France. Excerpt from the chapter VIIin which she returns to the historical and subtle links of Arabic with the Muslim, but also Christian and Jewish religions.
In the heart of a Moroccan prison. Hicham Mansouri
Arrested on false accusations due to a planned investigation into electronic surveillance in Morocco, Hicham Mansouri spent ten months in Zaki prison, one of the most dangerous in the Sherifian kingdom. This book is based on the notebooks written during his detention. It plunges us into the heart of enormous illegal trafficking organized on a large scale, with complicity at the highest level. Corruption in Morocco is widely recognized, but detailed information is rare on the subject, especially in the shadow of prisons.
Hicham Mansouri
In the heart of a Moroccan prison
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
216 pages
10 euros
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Hicham Mansouri, January 2022
For ten months, independent journalist Hicham Mansouri was imprisoned in Salé prison, one of the most dangerous in Morocco. It led to an investigation into this kingdom of all kinds of trafficking, organized on a large scale with complicity at all levels. In the heart of a Moroccan prison, published by Libertalia and Orient XXI, comes out in bookstores this January 20, 2022. It is a fascinating story about the reality of the Moroccan prison system.
The Palestinian Revolution and the Jews. Fatah
Published in the spring of 1970 by Fatah, Yasser Arafat's organization, this text marks a turning point in the political thinking of the Palestinian resistance. The movement proposes a revolutionary objective, the creation of a non-denominational democratic Palestine, a single state in which Muslims, Jews and Christians would coexist. The text does not hide the difficulties of such a project, which requires rallying a significant number of Jewish Israelis. He recognizes that the proposed utopia will need to be clarified but proclaims that it is « the only permanent solution that will bring lasting peace and justice ».
A document presented and contextualized by Alain Gresh, specialist in Israeli-Palestinian issues, former editor-in-chief of Diplomatic world, founder of the site Orient XXI.
And Fatah
The Palestinian Revolution and the Jews
Libertalia Editions, Orient collection XXI
96 pages
8 euros
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Fatah, June 2021
Libertalia and Orient XXI join forces for a collection of works devoted to the Middle East. The first title, which appears Thursday June 3, 2021, is a lucid and fascinating text published in 1970 by Fatah, “ The Palestinian Revolution and the Jews ».
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