Facing war: Israel/Palestine
With Jean-Pierre Filiu and Vincent Lemire, historians
Moderation: Thomas Legrand, journalist, political columnist
October 2023 marks the start of a new cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s a conflict we’ll be trying to better understand during this evening at the Mucem. In the company of historians and specialists, we’ll take stock of the situation today, looking at the origins of this war and its major historical stages. Secondly, we will decipher the repercussions of this war and its excesses in France, by talking about racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Jean-Pierre Filiu (historian)
Jean-Pierre Filiu is University Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Sciences Po, Paris, after holding visiting professorships at Columbia and Georgetown universities in the USA. He has been a regular visitor to Israel and the Palestinian territories since 1980. Every Sunday since 2015, he has published the column “Un si proche Orient” on the website of the daily newspaper Le Monde. He is the author of some twenty books translated into over fifteen languages, including Histoire de Gaza (Fayard, 2012) and Main basse sur Israël (Editions La Découverte, 2019). How Palestine was lost. And why Israel didn’t win. Histoire d’un conflit (XIXe-XXIe siècle) will be published by Seuil on February 9, 2024.
Vincent Lemire (historian)
Vincent Lemire is a historian and professor of contemporary history at Paris-Est / Gustave-Eiffel University, specializing in the city of Jerusalem and the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2019 to 2023, he directed the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CNRS-MAE). Just after obtaining his agrégation in history in 1998, he left for Jerusalem, the focus of his thesis La soif de Jérusalem, essai d’hydrohistoire, defended in Aix-en-Provence in 2006 and published in 2010 by Editions de la Sorbonne. He is currently leading the European “Open Jerusalem” project, which aims to interconnect the Holy City’s archives in order to decompartmentalize its historical narratives (www.openjerusalem.org). He is the author of Au pied du mur. Vie et mort du quartier maghrébin de Jérusalem (1187-1967) (Seuil, 2022) and the comic strip Histoire de Jérusalem, with Christophe Gaultier (Les Arènes, 2022).
Thomas Legrand (journalist, political columnist)
Thomas Legrand is a journalist and political columnist. He hosts and produces the program “En quête de politique” on France Inter and writes a daily column for Libération. He is the author of two series of documentary podcasts: À la hussarde on the great moments of the 2017 presidential election and De Gaulle 2020. His publications include Plumes de l’ombre. Les nègres des hommes politiques (with Emmanuel Faux and Gilles Perez, éditions Ramsay, 1991), Petit dictionnaire énervé de la politique (éditions de L’opportun, 2010), Ce n’est rien qu’un président qui nous fait perdre du temps (Stock, 2010), J’aurais voulu faire président (with Philippe Bercovici, éditions 12 bis, 2011), Arrêtons d’élire des présidents! (Stock, 2014), Chronique de l’imprévu (Stock, 2017), L’histoire de la Ve République en BD (with François Warzala, éditions Les Arènes, 2018).
With Jean-Pierre Filiu and Vincent Lemire, historians
Moderation: Thomas Legrand, journalist, political columnist
October 2023 marks the start of a new cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s a conflict we’ll be trying to better understand during this evening at the Mucem. In the company of historians and specialists, we’ll take stock of the situation today, looking at the origins of this war and its major historical stages. Secondly, we will decipher the repercussions of this war and its excesses in France, by talking about racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Jean-Pierre Filiu (historian)
Jean-Pierre Filiu is University Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Sciences Po, Paris, after holding visiting professorships at Columbia and Georgetown universities in the USA. He has been a regular visitor to Israel and the Palestinian territories since 1980. Every Sunday since 2015, he has published the column “Un si proche Orient” on the website of the daily newspaper Le Monde. He is the author of some twenty books translated into over fifteen languages, including Histoire de Gaza (Fayard, 2012) and Main basse sur Israël (Editions La Découverte, 2019). How Palestine was lost. And why Israel didn’t win. Histoire d’un conflit (XIXe-XXIe siècle) will be published by Seuil on February 9, 2024.
Vincent Lemire (historian)
Vincent Lemire is a historian and professor of contemporary history at Paris-Est / Gustave-Eiffel University, specializing in the city of Jerusalem and the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2019 to 2023, he directed the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CNRS-MAE). Just after obtaining his agrégation in history in 1998, he left for Jerusalem, the focus of his thesis La soif de Jérusalem, essai d’hydrohistoire, defended in Aix-en-Provence in 2006 and published in 2010 by Editions de la Sorbonne. He is currently leading the European “Open Jerusalem” project, which aims to interconnect the Holy City’s archives in order to decompartmentalize its historical narratives (www.openjerusalem.org). He is the author of Au pied du mur. Vie et mort du quartier maghrébin de Jérusalem (1187-1967) (Seuil, 2022) and the comic strip Histoire de Jérusalem, with Christophe Gaultier (Les Arènes, 2022).
Thomas Legrand (journalist, political columnist)
Thomas Legrand is a journalist and political columnist. He hosts and produces the program “En quête de politique” on France Inter and writes a daily column for Libération. He is the author of two series of documentary podcasts: À la hussarde on the great moments of the 2017 presidential election and De Gaulle 2020. His publications include Plumes de l’ombre. Les nègres des hommes politiques (with Emmanuel Faux and Gilles Perez, éditions Ramsay, 1991), Petit dictionnaire énervé de la politique (éditions de L’opportun, 2010), Ce n’est rien qu’un président qui nous fait perdre du temps (Stock, 2010), J’aurais voulu faire président (with Philippe Bercovici, éditions 12 bis, 2011), Arrêtons d’élire des présidents! (Stock, 2014), Chronique de l’imprévu (Stock, 2017), L’histoire de la Ve République en BD (with François Warzala, éditions Les Arènes, 2018).