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Les humbles ne craignent pas l'eau

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

Número de Páginas: 394

Omar, un jeune chauffeur et interprète afghan, décide de prendre la route de l'exil, laissant derrière lui son pays et son amour, Laila, sans savoir s'il pourra les retrouver un jour. Matthieu Aikins, grand reporter, correspondant depuis 2008 du New York Times en Afghanistan, est devenu peu à peu l'ami d'Omar, son traducteur et chauffeur. Lorsque ce dernier lui annonce sa décision de rejoindre l'Europe, le journaliste décide de le suivre. Il change d'identité, détruit son passeport et se lance à ses côtés dans une odyssée parmi des millions de réfugiés prêts à s'arracher à leurs vies et leurs familles dans l'espoir d'une existence meilleure. Nous sommes en 2016, au pic de la crise des réfugiés, et Matthieu Aikins raconte les dangers et les peurs, la traversée de pays en guerre, les passeurs, la solidarité comme la haine, la terrible situation du camp de Lesbos et de l'accueil en Europe. Dans la pure tradition du journalisme en immersion, de Florence Aubenas ou Ted Conover, loin d'un document racoleur, l'auteur par la profondeur de son regard, son empathie et son écriture, se détache du simple reportage et nous offre une réflexion à hauteur d'hommes et de...

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

Número de Páginas: 367

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting · A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice “This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders—not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership.”—Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future. In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground on the refugee trail with Omar. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of...

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future. In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground on the refugee trail with Omar. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of the migration crisis: smugglers, cops, activists, and the men, women and children fleeing war in search of a better life. As setbacks and dangers mount for the two friends, Matthieu is also drawn into the escape plans of Omar's entire family, including Maryam, the matriarch who has fought ferociously for her children's survival. Harrowing yet hopeful, this exceptional work brings into sharp focus one...

De tolk van Kabul

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

Número de Páginas: 336

Een jonge Afghaanse tolk genaamd Omar neemt de onmogelijke beslissing om zijn door oorlog geteisterde land te ontvluchten. Hij zegt Laila, de liefde van zijn leven, vaarwel, zonder te weten wanneer ze elkaar weer zullen zien. Omar is een van de miljoenen vluchtelingen die huis, haard en familie achterlaten. Matthieu Aikins, een journalist die in Kabul woont, besluit zijn vriend op die levensgevaarlijke tocht te vergezellen. Hiervoor moet hij zowel zijn paspoort als zijn identiteit achterlaten. Tijdens hun odyssee door de bergen en over zee ontmoeten ze talloze mensen in het hart van de migratiecrisis: onbetrouwbare smokkelaars, harteloze grenspolitie en de mannen, vrouwen en kinderen die oorlog ontvluchten op zoek naar een beter leven. Dit uitzonderlijke boek brengt een van de meest controversiële kwesties van onze tijd scherp in beeld. De tolk van Kabul is een schrijnend, maar prachtig geschreven verhaal over grenzeloze liefde en vriendschap. Het is een hoopvol verslag van een gedeelde reis in een hopeloos verdeelde wereld. 'Dit boek zal de geschiedenis ingaan als een van de grote literaire non-fictiewerken van deze tijd.' Anand Gopal, finalist Pulitzer Prize en National Book...

Disaster Capitalism

Autor: Antony Loewenstein

Número de Páginas: 443

Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's reporting is a dark history of multinational corporations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valuable commodity.

Fool's Errand

Autor: Scott Horton

Número de Páginas: 412

"After more than a decade and a half, the results are in. The U.S. government has been unable to achieve its goals in Afghanistan. Even worse, what state it has been able to achieve there is completely unsustainable and certain to fall apart when the occupation is finally called off, and America does come home. The politicans, generals, and intelligence officers behind this unending catastrophe, who always promise they can fix these problems with just a little bit more time, money and military force, have lost all credibility. The truth is America's Afghan war is an irredeemable disaster. It was meant to be a trap in the first place. America is not only failing to defeat its enemies, but is destroying itself, just as Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda always intended. Fool's Errand is an attempt to present the American people with the reality of this forgotten war, because only the ignorance of pride and refusal to admit they have been deceived can prevent Americans from realizing they have supported a policy that is destructive to the United States as well as Afghanistan." -- from Introduction.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2012

Autor: Sid Holt , The American Society Of Magazine Editors

Número de Páginas: 544

Chosen from the nominees and winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards, this year's anthology covers a range of developments in culture, commerce, society, and politics, from the passing of Steve Jobs to the controversy over breast cancer research funding.

Sept mook #39 - Spécial Afghanistan

Autor: Reza Deghati , Régis Koetschet , Philippe Marquis

Número de Páginas: 164

Au carrefour de l’Occident et de l’Orient, du bouddhisme et de la culture grecque, puis de l’islam sous l’influence de la Perse, l’Afghanistan possède un patrimoine culturel richissime. Il suffit de relire les écrivains-voyageurs Joseph Kessel et Ella Maillart – dont nous publions des extraits de leur oeuvre – pour s’en rendre compte. Une mémoire que les turbans noirs, ces révisionnistes du djihad, s’évertuent à détruire pour imposer leur lecture univoque de l’histoire et du Coran. Une «mémoire assassinée», pour reprendre le titre du livre de l’écrivain et grand reporter Olivier Weber sorti en 2001, année du dynamitage des bouddhas de Bamiyan. Pour ne rien oublier, pour graver les mémoires et continuer à tisser l’espoir, nous avons décidé de consacrer deux Sept mook à celles et ceux qui ont vécu et travaillé en Afghanistan. Ce premier numéro de Mémoire(s) afghane(s) – le second sera publié en 2023 – donne la parole à Reza, l’un des plus grands photographes contemporains. Attiré depuis son enfance par l’Afghanistan, il s’y est rendu à de multiples reprises depuis 1983, s’est lié d’amitié avec feu le commandant...

The New York Times Magazine

Número de Páginas: 828

Harper's

Número de Páginas: 2568

The New Yorker

Autor: Harold Wallace Ross , William Shawn , Tina Brown , David Remnick , Katharine Sergeant Angell White , Rea Irvin , Roger Angell

Número de Páginas: 1134

Unending Violence in Pakistan

Número de Páginas: 172

Repère

Número de Páginas: 1312

Harvard Law Review

Número de Páginas: 770

Acknowledging Limits

Autor: William Rosenau

Número de Páginas: 112

"This monograph explores police mentoring in Afghanistan by U.S. and U.K. military forces during the 2007-2009 period. In a series of 10 vignettes, this study examines efforts to advise, train, and support elements of the Afghan National Police (ANP) in northern, eastern, and southern Afghanistan. These vignettes explore the mentoring of ANP units, as well as the advising of individual chiefs of police at the district and province levels."--P. vii.

The Herald

Número de Páginas: 816

Chase's Calendar of Events 2015

Autor: Editors Of Chase's Calendar Of Events

Número de Páginas: 754

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. 12,500 entries. 196 countries. 365 days. Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! If you're looking to tie a promotional event to a special month, travel to a music festival halfway around the world, blog about a historical milestone or do a celebrity birthday round-up on your radio show or Twitter feed, Chase's Calendar of Events is the one resource that has it all. For broadcasters, journalists, event planners, public relations professionals, librarians, editors, writers or simply the curious, this is one reference you can't do without! Chase's Calendar of Events 2015 brings you: Major sporting events such as the FIFA Women's World Cup (June 6), the Pan American Games (July 10) and the 48th Transpacific Yacht Race (July 13). Milestones such as the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, 200th anniversary of Waterloo, 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, 75th anniversary of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, 150th birth anniversary of poet W.B. Yeats and...

Newsline

Número de Páginas: 712

Los cuerpos desnudos no le temen al agua

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

Número de Páginas: 302

«Los cuerpos desnudos no le temen al agua es una mirada fascinante y desgarradora al mundo oculto de los refugiados que desafió todo cuanto pensaba que sabía sobre las consecuencias de la guerra y la globalización. Es el trabajo más importante que se ha realizado hasta la fecha sobre la crisis global de los refugiados, y un documento crucial de estos tiempos convulsos. Será recordada como una de las grandes obras de no ficción de nuestra generación.» Anand Gopal, autor del Premio Pulitzer y finalista del National Book Award No Good Men Among the LivingEn esta extraordinaria obra, un joven y reconocido reportero de guerra narra el peligroso viaje hacia Europa, a través del camino de los contrabandistas, acompañando a su amigo, un refugiado afgano, en busca de un futuro mejor.En 2016 un joven conductor y traductor afgano llamado Omar toma la dolorosa decisión de huir de su país, devastado por la guerra, despidiéndose de Laila, el amor de su vida; no sabe cuándo volverán a reunirse. Él es uno de los millones de refugiados que abandonan sus hogares ese año.Matthieu Aikins, un periodista instalado en Kabul, decide seguir a su amigo. Para hacerlo, debe dejar atrás su...

No Le Tememos Al Agua

Autor: Matthieu Aikins

In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground on the refugee trail with Omar. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of the migration crisis: smugglers, cops, activists, and the men, women and children fleeing war in search of a better life. As setbacks and dangers mount for the two friends, Matthieu is also drawn into the escape plans of Omar's entire family, including Maryam, the matriarch who has fought ferociously for her children's survival. Harrowing yet hopeful, this exceptional work brings into sharp focus one of the most contentious issues of our times. The Naked Don't Fear the Water is a tale of love and friendship across borders, and an inquiry into our shared journey in a divided world.