Darina Al Joundi is a Lebanese-born stage actor. She became a French citizen after Prime Minister
Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hol ...
read a review of her performance at the 2012
Avignon Festival
The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vila ...
and decided to speed up her application. She has promoted women's rights for the French government.
Early life
Darina Al Joundi was born circa 1969.
Her father,
Hassem Al Joundi, was a Syrian author and politician.
She grew up in a Muslim family and attended Catholic schools.
After she was sent to a psychiatric hospital run by nuns in
Jounieh,
she decided to emigrate to France.
Career
Al Joundi became an actress in France. She co-wrote ''Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter'', a one-woman show about her struggle to obtain French citizenship, with Algerian playwright
Mohamed Kacimi
Mohamed Kacimi (born 1955) is an Algerian novelist and playwright.
Early life
Mohamed Kacimi was born in 1955 in El Hamel, French Algeria. He was raised as a Muslim, and he attended both French and Islamic schools as Zawiyet El Hamel. He emig ...
.
Her performance at the 2012
Festival d'Avignon
The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vila ...
received good reviews from theatre critics.
After Prime Minister
Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hol ...
read an article about her in ''
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'' in 2012, he decided to speed up her application for French citizenship.
On September 27, 2012, Al Joundi was invited to speak at the French Ministry of Women's Rights by Minister
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (; ar, link=no, نجاة فالو بلقاسم; Riffian-Berber: ⵏⴰⵊⴰⵜ ⴱⵍⵇⴰⵙⵎ; born 4 October 1977) is a former Moroccan-French jurist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who was the first Fre ...
alongside the editor-in-chief of ''Marie-Claire'', Catherine Durand.
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Filmography
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Living people
1960s births
French people of Syrian descent
Lebanese people of Syrian descent
Lebanese emigrants to France
Lebanese stage actresses
French stage actresses
French women's rights activists
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