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Élisabeth Lévy
Élisabeth Lévy (born 16 February 1964) is a French journalist, polemicist, essayist and editor in chief of '' Causeur''. Biography She was born in Marseille, the daughter of a general practitioner and a pharmacist, both of whom were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She grew up in Épinay-sur-Seine and studied at Sciences Po. She worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) and for ''Jeune Afrique''. She later joined ''L’Événement du jeudi'', and ''Marianne'' and, after being dismissed by Jean-François Kahn in 1998, began writing for ''Le Figaro''. In 2005, ''Le Premier Pouvoir'', a programme she presented on France Culture devoted to media analysis, was cancelled. Guests had included Jean Baudrillard, and Peter Sloterdijk. In 2007 she co-founded ''Causeur'', a magazine whose annual losses are offset by support from far-right stakeholders like Gérald Penciolelli. Controversies Climate change denial During a heated discussion with Claire Nouvain on CNews, where Lévy is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Levy
Elizabeth Levy (born April 4, 1942) is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres. Born in Buffalo, New York, she is currently living in New York City. She has appeared as a contestant on ''Billy on the Street'' on TruTV. Her cousin is children's author Robie Harris. Writing career She has written a long-running series of mystery novels for youngsters under the ''Something Queer is Going On'' banner (''Something Queer at the Library, Something Queer at the Haunted School,'' etc.). She is also responsible for the ''Horrible Histories'' spin-off series ''America's Funny But True History''. Levy wrote several novelizations of the ''Star Wars'' episode ''Return of the Jedi''. Selected works *''Something Queer is Going On'', with Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (1973), Delacorte Press, – first in the ''Something Queer'' series *''Nice Little Girls'' (1974), Delacorte Press, *''The Computer That Said Steal Me'' (1983), Scholastic Corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaud Camus
Renaud Camus (; ; born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus on 10 August 1946) is a French novelist and conspiracy theorist. He is the originator of the far-right "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which claims that a "global elite" is colluding against the white population of Europe to replace them with non-European peoples. Camus's writings on the "Great Replacement" have been translated on far-right websites and used to promote the white genocide conspiracy theory. Camus has repeatedly condemned and publicly disavowed violent acts which have been perpetrated by far-right terrorists inspired by his theories. Early life and career as a fiction writer Family and education (1946–1977) Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus was born on 10 August 1946 in Chamalières, Auvergne, a rural town in central France. Raised in a bourgeois family, he is the son of Léon Camus, an entrepreneur, and Catherine Gourdiat, a lawyer. His parents removed him from their will after he revealed his homosexuality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ménard
Robert Ménard (; born 6 July 1953) is a French politician and former journalist who has served as Mayor of Béziers since 2014. He co-founded the Paris-based international NGO Reporters Without Borders, which he led as its general-secretary from 1985 to 2008. He subsequently participated in the launch of the conservative information website ''Boulevard Voltaire'' in 2012. An independent politician since 1981, he was elected to the mayorship of Béziers in 2014. He joined the Les Amoureux de la France alliance in 2017. Family and education Ménard comes from a Catholic French '' Pied-Noir'' family which settled in Algeria in the 1850s. Around the time of the Independence of Algeria and when he was nine years old, the family moved to Brusque, Aveyron. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rony Brauman
Rony Brauman (born 19 June 1950) is a French physician specializing in tropical diseases and a former president of ''Médecins sans frontières'' (Doctors without Borders) He was one of the early members of Médecins sans frontières, and was its president from 1982 to 1994. As president, Brauman oversaw the financial and operational expansion of the movement, including the establishment of new operational centers and chapters around the world. He was a professor at the Sciences Po from 1994 to 1997 and is now scientific advisor in the school of international affairs of Sciences Po. With Israeli director Eyal Sivan, his cousin, he co-directed a documentary (1999) on the trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961) based on Hannah Arendt's 1963 book ''Eichmann in Jerusalem''. Brauman is also Director of thHumanitarian and Conflict Response Institute(HCRI) at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Muray
Philippe Muray (1945 in Angers (France) – March 2, 2006 in Paris) was a French essayist and novelist. None of his works have yet been translated into English. In 2010, the French actor Fabrice Luchini read some of Muray's works at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, which contributed to a renewed discussion of his writings in the French press. Muray's literary styles and the wealth of works he published make him one of the most important writers of the 20th and 21st century. Biography Very little is known about Muray's personal life. His father was a writer and translator of English-language authors (Jack London, Melville, Kipling, etc.) and his mother a devout reader. According to Muray himself, his parents contributed significantly to his literary education and taste of literature. As soon as he could, he started to study humanities in Paris. During some months in 1983, he taught French literature at Stanford University in California. There he developed the concept of ''L'empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malek Boutih
Abdelmalek "Malek" Boutih (; born 27 October 1964) is a French retired politician and activist who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2017, representing the Essonne department. He previously was the Socialist Party's National Secretary for Social Issues (French: ''Secrétaire national chargé des questions de société'') from 2003 to 2008. He also has had a long association with SOS Racisme, a civil rights organisation with close ties to the Socialist Party. He joined in 1984 while a student at the University of Nanterre and served as vice president from 1985 to 1992 and as president from 1999 to 2003. President Nicolas Sarkozy asked him to enter the French Government in 2007 but he refused, preferring to focus on his social activism. Early life and education Malek Boutih was born in a clinic in the wealthy neighbourhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine, although his family did not live there. He later chose to return to Neuilly-sur-Seine to attend La Folie-Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo. The KLA was formed in the early 1990s to fight against the discrimination of ethnic Albanians and the repression of political dissent by the Serbian authorities, which started after the suppression of Kosovo's autonomy and other discriminatory policies against Albanians by Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1989. The KLA initiated its first campaign in 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbians
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian language, language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language, Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manifesto Of The 343
The Manifesto of the 343 Women () is a French petition penned by Simone de Beauvoir, and signed by 343 women, all publicly declaring that they had had an illegal abortion. The manifesto was published under the title, "" (), on 5 April 1971, in issue 334 of '' Le Nouvel Observateur'', a social democratic French weekly magazine. The piece was the sole topic on the magazine cover. At the time, abortion was illegal in France, and by admitting publicly to having aborted, women exposed themselves to criminal prosecution. The manifesto called for the legalization of abortion and free access to contraception. It paved the way for the " Veil Act" — named for Health Minister Simone Veil — which repealed the penalty for voluntarily terminating a pregnancy. The law was passed in December 1974 and January 1975, and afforded women the ability to abort during the first ten weeks (later extended to fourteen weeks). Background Following the Liberation of Paris in 1944, the death penalty for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hebdo
''Charlie Hebdo'' (; ) is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular, libertarian, and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism, publishing articles about the History of far-right movements in France, far-right (especially the French nationalist National Rally party), religion (Christianity, Islam in France, Islam, and Judaism in France, Judaism), Politics of France, politics and Culture of France, culture. The magazine has been the target of three terrorist attacks: in 2011, 2015, and 2020. All of them were presumed to be in response to a number of cartoons that it published controversially Depictions of Muhammad, depicting Muhammad. In Charlie Hebdo shooting, the second of these attacks, 12 people were killed, including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists. In the aftermath, Charlie Hebdo and Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1011, its publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Gender Equality, Diversity And Equal Opportunities
Since 1974, the French government has intermittently included a minister responsible for women's rights. The minister led the Ministry of Women's Rights. Ministers * Isabelle Lonvis-Rome (Borne government) (2022 to 2023) * Bérangère Couillard (Borne government) (2023 to 2024) * Aurore Bergé (Attal government) (2024 to present) References {{French Government France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ... Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities 1974 establishments in France Women in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élisabeth Moreno
Élisabeth Moreno (born 20 September 1970) is a French-Cape Verdean businesswoman and politician who served as Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities at the Prime Minister's Office in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022. Early life and career Moreno moved from Cape Verde to France with her family in the late 1970s, in order for them to access medical infrastructure to treat Moreno's younger sister for burns. Her career has included growing a company in the construction sector that she created with her husband, four years at France Telecom, and later at Dell. In 2006 she obtained an Executive MBA from ESSEC Business School and the University of Mannheim. Before entering politics, Moreno worked as vice-president and managing director of Hewlett-Packard for Africa from 2019 until 2020, based in South Africa, and as president of Lenovo France from 2017 until 2019. Political career Under Moreno's leadership, the French gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
