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Raphaël Chauvancy: The ‘Social-fabric Wars’ threaten to dislocate French society

A senior officer in the Troupes de marine (French Marine Troops), Raphaël Chauvancy is a lecturer at the École de Guerre Économique (School of Economic Warfare). An expert in modern conflicts and a specialist in strategic influence, he published in February “Winning Without Violence: A Handbook of Influence and Information Warfare” (VA Editions). There he details the influence strategies used by hostile states to “manipulate perceptions” and “reshape realities” in a world undergoing profound change. An interview.

Interview | Bernard Kouchner: Let’s not give in to the “fascisation of minds”!

The rise of populism in Europe, the renunciation of humanist values and human rights, the failure of Western military and humanitarian interventions, the return of the Taliban... While acknowledging the failures, drifts and regressions, Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, strives to remain optimistic, calling for more faith than ever in Man, who is certainly capable of the worst, but who is also and always capable of the best.

Islamism | Mohamed Louizi : The Muslim Brotherhood hides a huge real estate empire in France and Europe

The author of “Why I left the Muslim Brotherhood” was the first in 2016 to publish an investigation into the real estate assets of Imam Hassan Iquioussen and his family. For him, the Iquioussen case is in fact the tree that hides the forest: for decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has been discreetly accumulating buildings, houses, commercial premises, flats and land. The objective is to build up a “real estate war chest” that would allow them to finance themselves, so as...

Interview | Anouar Rahmani “I saw Salman Rushdie get stabbed”

On August 8, Algerian novelist Anouar Rahmani was due to take part in the debate on freedom of expression, alongside Salman Rushdie and other persecuted artists, in Chautauqua, New York. He was in the conference room when the author of “The Satanic Verses” was stabbed. In this interview, conducted the day after the attack, he confides exclusively to Screen Watch about this painful ordeal.

Interview | Lorenzo Vidino: It is no longer Qatar that funds the Muslim Brotherhood, but the European Union!

The Islamologist Lorenzo Vidino, whose latest book ‘‘Muslim Brotherhood: the Closed Circle’’, has just been translated into French (Global Watch Analysis editions), has carried out a study, for the Austrian documentation center on political Islam, on the pan-European structures of the Muslim Brotherhood. Published last October, this study (co-authored with Sergio Altuna, 280 pages) constitutes an edifying document on the scale of the Brotherhood's European tentacles, their mode of operation and their financing.

Exclusive Interview | Michael Privot: When I was at FEMYSO

Islamologist, specialist in classical Islamic philosophy, Michaël Privot is a former executive of the Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium. For five years (2003-2007), he was a member of the board of directors (executive board) of FEMYSO (Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations), a pan-European federation of Islamic youth organisations. Having left the Islamist brotherhood in 2012, Michaël Privot published. in 2017, an autobiographical book entitled “Quand j'étais Frère musulman, parcours vers un islam des lumières” (When I was a...

Exclusive Interview | Humanity & Inclusion’s former director Georges Dallemagne: I witnessed war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh

Georges Dallemagne, former director of Humanity & Inclusion, now Belgian federal deputy, has just returned from Nagorno-Karabakh where he carried out an observation mission in the heart of the conflict between the Armenian minority and Azerbaijan. In this interview with Global Watch Analysis, he claims to have observed "war crimes" and confirms the presence of "jihadist mercenaries" dispatched to the scene by Turkey.

Exclusive Interview | François Hollande: Radicalization and political Islamism gangren France

Five years have passed since the terrorist attacks in Paris, on November 13, 2015. At the time when France commemorates the event and round tribute to the victims of these attacks, President François Hollande, who was in office during these tragic events, granted an exclusive interview to Global Watch Analysis.