Olivier Da Lage (born 1957 in

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) is a French

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Career

He graduated from Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1978 and from the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) in 1979. After serving as press attaché at the French embassy in

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(1979–1980), he was free lance

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correspondent for several French speaking media (1981–1982), based in Bahrain. Back in France, he was awarded the Journalists in Europe fellowship and joined

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(RFI) in 1983 as

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correspondent. In 1995, he was appointed deputy-editor in chief at Radio Monte Carlo Moyen-Orient (SOMERA), an Arabic speaking broadcasting corporation based in Paris. In 1998, he returns to the Foreign desk of RFI, covering the Middle East. From 2000 to 2005, he is deputy editor in chief of RFI's multimedia newsroom. In 2005, he is appointed RFI's Foreign editor and has been subsequently RFI's week-end editor in chief from 2010 to 2023. He is currently associate researcher at IRIS. Da Lage has published several books and numerous articles on the

and the

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as well as on

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and is a regular lecturer a
IRIS
(Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques), a Paris-based foreign policy think tank, and has taught in several Journalism colleges on

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and Press law.

Union activities

A member of the French National union of journalists (SNJ), he has chaired the Press card committee of which he was a member from 1993 to 2003. He is also a member of AREG (Authors’ Rights Expert group) of the

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(IFJ). In May 2007, at the IFJ congress in Moscow, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the IFJ and in May 2010 at the Cadiz congress, as vice-president. He did not run for the vice-presidency at the Dublin Congress (June 2013) but was reelected at the Executive Committee. In 2009, he took part in the drafting of the new ethical code of French journalists.

Honours

He has been awarded "Chevalier dans l'

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

" (2010).

Books

''Les Indiens et leurs langues'', BiblioMonde, 2024 ''L'Inde, un géant fragile'', Eyrolles, 2022 '' Nationalismes religieux - Moyen-Orient'' (dir.), L'Harmattan, 2020 ''Mr. Singh‘s rickshaw'', KDP Amazon, 2019 ''L'essor des nationalismes religieux'' (dir.), Demopolis, 2018 ''Bombay'', BiblioMonde, 2017 ''L'Inde, désir de puissance'', Armand Colin, 2017 ''Aujourd'hui, l'Inde'', (with Tirthankar Chanda), Casterman, 2012 ''Obtenir sa carte de presse et la conserver'', 2nd ed., Victoires-Éditions, 2011 ''Ces trente ans qui ébranlèrent le golfe Persique'', Éditions du Cygne, 2011 ''L'Inde de A à Z'', (with Nina Da Lage), André Versaille éditeur, Bruxelles, 2010 ''Géopolitique de l'Arabie Saoudite'', 2nd ed.,Complexe, Bruxelles, 2006 ''The Politics of Al Jazeera or the Diplomacy of Doha'' (in «''The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media''», Pluto Press,2005 ''Maudite soit ta source'', (with Jean-Paul Riondet), Michalon, 2002 ''Le Secrétaire général'', (with Gérard Grzybek et Thomas Schreiber), Belfond, 1988 ''Golfe : le Jeu des six familles'', (with Gérard Grzybek), Autrement, 1985

References

External links

Olivier Da Lage’s blog
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