Sarra Grira
Journalist, doctor in French literature. Chief editor of Orient XXI.
- ‘Telk Qadeya’, anthem of divorce from the Western world Sarra Grira · 24 January The song ‘Telk Qadeya’(‘This is an issue’) by the Egyptian rock group Cairokee has been a big hit ever since the single was issued at the end of November 2023. By denouncing the selective indignation of a Western rhetoric which claims to laud all progressive struggles but disregards the (...)
- Editorial Gaza: The Media Accompaniment to a Genocide Alain Gresh, Sarra Grira · 9 January ‘For 90 days now, I’ve failed to understand. Thousands of people are killed or mutilated, overwhelmed by a storm of violence that can scarcely be called a war, except for a lazy mind.’ In his letter of resignation after twelve years of good and faithful service, in protest against the way his (...)
- Editorial Anti-Semitism: the Far Right Whitewashed by its Support for Israel Alain Gresh, Sarra Grira · 4 January The episode would have been unthinkable not so long ago: MPs and fans of the far right, some of them fellow travellers of the Groupe Union Défense (GUD) demonstrating side by side with Jewish extremist groups like the Jewish Defence League (JDL) or the Betar in the “march against (...)
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Tunisia: Exploiting Fear and Rivalries, Kais Saied Stands Alone at the Helm
Sarra Grira
· April 2023
Add restrictions on civil liberties to the looming economic crisis. Several political opponents have been arrested and human rights activists arraigned. Yet far from making people want to organise protests, the situation is marked by a fear of arbitrary persecution and by defeatism.
‘Will I (...) - Tunisia: Battleground for the Gulf Media Sarra Grira · July 2020 The political controversies between the Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda and its opponents have only known a short lull with the coronavirus crisis. And the foreign policy initiatives taken by the party’s leader Rached Ghannouchi have triggered hot debates, especially in parliament. This (...)
- Books Jean-Paul Sartre and Arab Existentialism: Ships that Passed in the Night Sarra Grira · August 2019 Yoav Di-Capua teaches history at Princeton University. At the end of 2018 he published No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization in which he describes the little-known history of Arab existentialism. He shows how the philosopher’s pro-Israeli stance during the war of (...)