Sa sortie a été ardemment attendue et pour cause. Les fuites
savamment orchestrées et les tentatives multiples de Trump de bloquer sa parution,
auguraient d’un contenu explosif et de récits alléchants et prometteurs pour les lecteurs curieux.
dimanche 28 juin 2020
Dans la tête de Donald Trump
Ex-conseiller à la sécurité nationale du président américain Donald Trump
et ancien ambassadeur de l’administration de George W. Bush auprès des
Nations Unis, John Bolton, publie enfin son livre sur l’actuel chef de la
maison blanche (The Room Where
it Happened, a White House Memoir, Simon & Schuster, 2020).
mardi 16 juin 2020
Abdelbasset Al-Sarout: chronique d'une révolution trahie
Le personnage d'Abdelbasset Al-Sarout incarne probablement
le mieux le parcours de la révolution syrienne, ses débuts radieux et
spontanés, ses erreurs et ses errements, et finalement ses dénouements tragiques.
jeudi 4 juin 2020
Le conquérant, le despote et Saint-Jean-d’Acre
Portant sur le siège qu’a imposé Napoléon à Akka (Acre) à la
fin du dix-huitième siècle lors de sa campagne orientale, le récit historique
accouche dans le roman d’Ala Hlehel «Bon Vent Bonaparte!» (Actes Sud/Sindbad, 2019) d’un
univers fictif aussi extravagant que réaliste. Un univers qui lie Napoléon et
Ahmad Pacha Jazzâr dans leur banale humanité, et qui raconte leur terrible
duel, entouré chacun de personnages réels, mais réinventés par l’auteur et
investis dans la trame de la tragédie qu’ont vécu des centaines de milliers de personnes.
mardi 2 juin 2020
Black Lives Matter
If Whiteness is a metaphor for power as James Baldwin put it, Blackness is a metaphor for being exploited, dominated, expropriated, abused and sometimes massacred by people of power for centuries. But It can also be a metaphor for standing up, struggling and fighting for justice, dignity and equality, with all the risks that such a struggle or fight might engender.
Those who are replacing “Black Lives matter” with “All Lives matter” might in some cases have good intentions. In most cases, however, they remind me of the ones who condemn violence in Occupied Palestine or in Syria putting Israeli soldiers and settlers on the same level with Palestinians who are dispossessed of their lands and homes, or Assadist forces on the same level with Syrians who are bombed, displaced and tortured. To put it differently, their argument is similar to responding to feminist slogans that deconstruct masculine domination, by evoking few incidents that targeted men and thus calling for removing any reference to masculinity or to patriarchy when talking about oppressing women.
Those who are replacing “Black Lives matter” with “All Lives matter” might in some cases have good intentions. In most cases, however, they remind me of the ones who condemn violence in Occupied Palestine or in Syria putting Israeli soldiers and settlers on the same level with Palestinians who are dispossessed of their lands and homes, or Assadist forces on the same level with Syrians who are bombed, displaced and tortured. To put it differently, their argument is similar to responding to feminist slogans that deconstruct masculine domination, by evoking few incidents that targeted men and thus calling for removing any reference to masculinity or to patriarchy when talking about oppressing women.
“Black Lives matter” is a powerful slogan. It is first and foremost about the protection of Black people from police (and other) racist brutality, about solidarity with them (in the US and in our own countries); but it is also about protecting and supporting all those oppressed everywhere, if blackness is understood as a universal political metaphor…
Ziad Majed