LE BREAKDOWN With Yasser Louati Podcast
1) Supporting a genocide, again
As UN experts are warning about genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza and despite israel's long track record of bombing palestinian civilians, this episode will cover France's support to the on...Show More
2) 50 years of Hip-Hop and me
This episode is my personal appreciation of Hip Hop and how it played a fundamental role in my political upbringing. Though I traced back the lessons I learned from Public Enemy, KRS One among others,...Show More
3) EGYPT PAPERS: Another French journalist raided by the Police
The recent raid against French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux for exposing the SIRLI operation has made headlines about the repression of a free press in France. The SIRLI operation is a long running co...Show More
4) Abayas and France's war on Muslims
On August 31st, the newly apointed Minister of Education Gabriel Attal started his mandate by launching a campaign against abayas, or long dresses, supposedly worn by radicalised Muslim students. Whe...Show More
5) Sabine Vorin, the Black woman who died on her workplace under a white Mayor's watch
Sabine Vorin, a cleaning agent, was found dead, alone, in the toilets of the Naguib Mahfouz municipal library in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on September 17, 2018. What her death revealed, was ...Show More
Sabine Vorin, the Black woman who died on her workplace under a white Mayor's watch
28:42 | May 20th, 2022
6) French elections: the Le Pen heist
Reviewing the presidential campaign, the election, the debates, the state of the Left and what the 2022 elections say about France. Read the full analysis on The New Arab: https://english.alaraby.co.u...Show More
7) Deciphering the preference for Ukrainian refugees
Guest: Jean Beaman, Author of "Citizen Outsider" and researcher on race and racism in France and the US. Many have called out the blatant double standards on refugees by western powers. While re...Show More
8) Is there a Muslim perspective on disobedience?
Following our previous episode "Muslim Clerics and the Arab Revolutions", my guest Dr Usaama Al Azami, Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Civilisation at the University of Oxford and author of "Islam an...Show More
9) Muslim clerics and the Arab Revolutions
As the Arab Revolutions were unfolding, various Muslim clerics took a public position to either support or condemn them, if not out right call for their repression in blood. Dr Usaama Al Azami, Lectur...Show More
10) Bombing a wedding in Mali: Inside France's drone war
Guest: Khalil Dewan, head of investigations at Stoke White Lawyers (London) After the bombing of a wedding celebration in the town of Bounti, Mali that left 19 civilians dead, a damning UN report cont...Show More