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Homs: The day citizen journalists’ cameras stopped rolling
The FRANCE 24 Observers • 23/02/2012 For nearly a year now, journalists from the FRANCE 24 Observers team have been in daily contact with citizen journalists in Syria, in particular in the flashpoint city of Homs. Until a few weeks ago, dozens of them were constantly on Skype, sending us videos of violent crackdowns on [...]
The “Potato Revolution”: Greeks start buying potatoes straight from farmers
The FRANCE 24 Observers • 07/03/2012 As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would for potatoes. The craze, which some are already starting to call the “Potato Revolution,” began in the northern town of Katerini two weeks ago. A group of [...]
RFI – L’Atelier des Medias
I appeared on Radio France Internationale‘s show “L’Atelier des Medias” in November 2011. Listen here: RFI-AtelierDesMedias
Activists take big risks to deliver underground newspaper in Syria
FRANCE 24 Observers • They ring the doorbell – and run away. But these masked men are no pranksters. In cities throughout Syria, they furtively go from door to door to distribute their underground, anti-government newspaper. Syrian Hurriyat – “hurriyat” means “freedoms” in Arabic – has just published its fourteenth issue. The 12-page newspaper [...]
Young Afghans get their first rock festival
FRANCE 24 Observers • Just a decade ago, under Taliban rule, playing music in Afghanistan meant risking a beating or even death. Now Kabul’s burgeoning rock scene is putting on the country’s first rock festival since the Taliban’s fall from power. However, the Taliban and other extremists still abound, so to avoid their wrath, organisers have concocted [...]
From ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to ‘Occupy the World’
FRANCE 24 Observers • When Occupy Wall Street began less than a month ago, many predicted the small, leaderless movement would die off in a matter of days. Instead, the number of protesters swelled to hundreds and then to thousands. Now, Occupy Wall Street is spawning dozens of copycat protests in cities across the United States and [...]
Au Portugal, les locataires menacés par le plan d’austérité
I reported this story from Lisbon with David Castello-Lopes for the French daily Le Monde. • Au Portugal, les locataires menacés par le plan d’austérité “La séduction parfois désuète de Lisbonne est restée intacte”, peut-on lire dans l’édition 2006 du Guide du routard. Une promenade de quelques heures dans le quartier de l’Alfama a en [...]
Managing Your Online Afterlife
Likely my most-read story, ever. It was published in TIME magazine (with a great illustration you can check out in PDF form here) and on TIME.com, in a slightly longer form (below), where it rose to #1 most-read. • When her 21-year-old daughter died in a sledding accident in early 2007, Pam Weiss had never [...]
In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory
TIME.com Monday, Mar. 01, 2010 By Gaelle Faure / Paris • Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive — until now. Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its official list of mental [...]
How a Bank Robber Became an Antihero in France
TIME.com Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 By Gaelle Faure / Paris • Before last week, Tony Musulin was a nobody, a single 39-year-old man who drove an armored bank security van in Lyon, France. Then on Nov. 5, when two co-workers briefly left him alone to run an errand, he allegedly vanished with more than $17.2 [...]