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Delphine Minoui


Born
Paris, France
Genre
Middle East, Fiction


Delphine Minoui (born 1974) is an award-winning author and journalist whose work focuses on the Middle East. Born to a French mother and Iranian father, she has lived and worked in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Egypt. She is currently based in Istanbul (Turkey), where she works as a correspondent for Le Figaro newspaper. Besides her commitment to journalism, for which she has received the Prix Albert Londres 2006, she has written six books, including “Tripoliwood” (Grasset), “I’m writing you from Tehran (Le Seuil, newly translated in English and published by Farrar Straus and Giroux). In 2018, she turned her latest book, “The book rescuers of Daraya, a secret library in Syria” (“Les passeurs de livres de Daraya, une bibliothèque secr ...more

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The Book Collectors: A Band...
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أكتب لكم من طهران
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L'Alphabet du silence
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Les Pintades à Téhéran
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Tripoliwood (Essai)
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Jeunesse d'Iran
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Je vous écris de Téhéran
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“You, who venerated poets more than God.”
― Delphine Minoui
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“But behind the courage of men can be found the suffering of women.”
― Delphine Minoui, The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
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“Hommes, femmes, qu'importe. Les portes du monde sont multiples.
À chacun(e) son chemin.
Je hais la neutralité.
Je hais les mots qui nous gomment.
Les virgules qui nous éclipsent, les points qui nous condamnent.
Je hais le monde au masculin.”
― Delphine Minoui, Badjens
tags: iranian-revolution
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