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Éric Guéret, director of ‘‘Premières Urgences’’: Is there a political will to destroy the French public hospital?

Éric Guéret, director of ‘‘Premières Urgences’’: Is there a political will to destroy the French public hospital?

For six months, director Éric Guéret filmed the daily life of young medical interns in the emergency department of the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb. The result is a touching and ambitious documentary, Premières Urgences (released in cinemas on 16 November). As patients pile up in the corridors, the five interns (Amin, Evan, Hélène, Lucie and Mélissa) do their best, with courage and self-sacrifice, despite a glaring lack of resources.

 

Carine Azzopardi “For many young people, secularism is perceived as a war against religion”!

Carine Azzopardi “For many young people, secularism is perceived as a war against religion”!

On 11 September 2001, journalist Carine Azzopardi was covering the attacks in New York, where she happened to be. On 13 November 2015, her partner and father of their children, music journalist Guillaume Barreau-Decherf, 43, was murdered at the Bataclan. In her book “Ces petits renoncements qui tuent” (Plon), Carine Azzopardi gives the – anonymous – testimony of a French teacher, confronted on a daily basis with the vindictive Islamism of some of his pupils. He refuses to give up and remains hopeful.

 

Michel Onfray: Zemmour is the symptom of a leaking dam!

Michel Onfray: Zemmour is the symptom of a leaking dam!

Accused himself of being a (left-wing?) populist, Michel Onfray – whose magazine Front Populaire organised a huge meeting at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, during which he debated with Éric Zemmour – takes an atypical but lucid look at the author of “Suicide français”…

 

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

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.

 

Anouar Rahmani “I saw Salman Rushdie get stabbed”

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.

 

Salman Rushdie: “Muslims will eventually rebel against the fanaticism that devours their world”

Salman Rushdie: “Muslims will eventually rebel against the fanaticism that devours their world”

In this interview conducted by our collaborator Martine Gozlan in February 2006, for the weekly Marianne, at the time of the release of his eighth novel “Shalimar The Clown”, the author of “The Satanic Verses” speaks of hope, creation and resistance. Vertiginous.

 

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

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.