Stories about France from March, 2007
Morocco: Death of a Frenchman
Writing in a View From Fez, Moroccan blogger Samir reports that a “Frenchman participating in the 22nd edition of the Sand Marathon died of heart attack in his tent Thursday at a campsite west of Jebl Kfiroune, about 40 kilometres from Rissani, in south-eastern Morocco.” “This is the second death...
France: Line Crossed in the Hunt for Immigrants
(photo via broyez) Here is a sombering follow-up to the post regarding the hunt for illegal immigrants and their following arrests in France. It seems that things have gotten worst in a hurry with the French presidential elections fast-approaching. Series of sudden arrests prompted many French people to take action...
Global Voices en Français Celebrates Journée Mondiale de la Francophonie
Today is Francophonia Day. About 50 French-speaking countries and territories, some belonging to the Organisation Mondiale de la Francophonie and others not, will reflect on what it means to have French as a language –often alongside others. (Not to worry we will tell you what the bloggers said as soon...
Egypt: French Demonstrate to Free Kareem
Bloggers and free speech activists living in Paris, France, turned out en mass to demonstrate against the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman opposite the Egyptian stand at the World Tourism Trade Fair.
French Elections and Darfur
Le Pangolin posts [Fr] the flyer for a meeting to take place March 20 in Paris where French presidential candidates including Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy will answer the question: “What do you plan to do about Darfur?”
Francophone Bloggers on Oscars and Césars
Hostess Valérie Lemercier performs a Guadeloupean zouk hit from the 80's at the Césars awards. Blogger reactions to the recent film award ceremonies in France and America are quite varied. Congolese Alain Mabanckou is happy with the attention Africa is getting in Hollywood. In particular, he is pleased with the...
March of the censors: France, Turkey and China clamp down on freedom of speech
Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual “berlusconisation” of the French media and the threat posed by the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of the Interior and conservative party head, to freedom of speech...
Egypt: Pro-Israeli heads Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris
The new head of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, one of the finest cultural centre dedicated to the Arab world in the world, is Dominique Baudis, a prominent figure of France’s pro-Israel movement, announces Issandr El Amrani in The Arabist.
Tanzania: hybrid identities
Charcoal Ink blogs about hybrid identities, “It used to hurt me a lot as a child because I was so proud of Tanzania despite the fact I lived abroad but when people constantly told me that I wasnt a real Tanzanian or a real East African — I then knew...