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Sarra Grira

Journalist, doctor in French literature. Chief editor of Orient XXI.

Interview Hayat Tahrir al-Sham : An ideological conversion under the microscope Patrick Haenni, Sarra Grira , Sylvain Cypel · December 2024 The jihadi background of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the faction behind the offensive which brought down Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has prompted many observers to regard it as little more than a reincarnation of al-Qaida. However the group’s governing experience since 2017 in Idlib has brought (…)
Éditorial Gaza - Lebanon : The Western World’s War Alain Gresh, Sarra Grira · October 2024 How far will Tel Aviv go? Not content with having reduced Gaza to rubble, and perpetrating a genocide there, Israel is now extending its operations to neighbouring Lebanon with the same methods, the same massacres, the same destruction, secure in the unwavering support of its Western backers, (…)
[Reporting Gaza. The Shifting Contours of the Lebanese Political Scene Sarra Grira · August 2024 Like many other Arab countries, Lebanon has not seen huge demonstrations in support of Palestine. But October 7 attack and the armed clashes that have taken place since then between Hezbollah and Israel on both sides of the border have partially modified the national political scene, the (…)
Editorial Israel’s Impunity, France’s Complicity Alain Gresh, Sarra Grira · June 2024 Too little, too late. How else to describe the wariness of Emmanuel Macron’s declarations dealing with the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip He began by mouthing a pious wish which rang only too false: ‘Israel’s operations in Rafah must cease.’ But contrary to what the French president (…)
‘Telk Qadeya’, anthem of divorce from the Western world Sarra Grira · January 2024 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 ongoing (…)
Editorial Gaza: The Media Accompaniment to a Genocide Alain Gresh, Sarra Grira · January 2024 ‘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 · January 2024 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 anti-semitism” (…)
[Reporting 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 June (…)