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Category: Society

Jumai Victor

Posted on January 12, 2022January 17, 2022by JC AgidLeave a comment

JUMAI VICTOR
Entretien avec Bernard-Henri Lévy, à l’occasion de la première américaine à New York de son film 
Une Autre Idée du Monde—The Will to See à New York le 16 janvier 2022.

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À la fin de l’année 2019, Bernard-Henri Lévy rentre du Nigeria avec un reportage d’une force rare. Il décrit les actes meurtriers, odieux et terroristes d’un groupe « plus ou moins liés à Boko Haram », « des islamistes d’un genre nouveau » : les Fulanis. De village en village, ils attaquent, brulent et assassinent les Chrétiens du Nigeria. Bernard-Henri Lévy nous présente une de leurs récentes victimes, Jumai Victor. Cette femme, « une évangéliste », se recueille sur une tombe, celle de son mari et de ses quatre enfants assassinés. Elle survit à cette attaque. Enceinte, les Fulanis ont épargné sa vie, mais certains d’entre eux lui ont tranché, l’un après l’autre, les doigts, puis la main et l’avant-bras.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fire Chat With, Politics, Society, Uncategorized, Women Empowerment
Tagged Ahmad Massoud, Bernard-Henri Lévy, BHL, Ce virus qui rend fou, Covid-19, Don Quichotte, Emmanuel Levinas, Jumai Victor, New York Jewish Film Festival, Romain Gary, Saint Exupéry, T.E. Lawrence, The Will to See, Une autre idée du monde, Vital Voices

Are You Game?

Posted on January 1, 2022March 7, 2022by JC AgidLeave a comment

ARE YOU GAME?

French Version of this post, click here.
Special thanks to Delphine Schrank for editing this story

They didn’t just  want to give to their favorite foundations. Some New Yorkers wanted to have some fun while doing it, playfully bidding for things both secret or less than significant. In the end, the cost matters less than the price of elegance. 

What about you? Would you take the gamble and surprise a gathering of bow tied, long-dressed revelers, the accoutrement of traditional New York galas whose ‘in-person’ season just wound down with the closing year? How much would you be willing to pay to blindly acquire the contents of an evening clutch or a surprise bag – to promote Franco-American friendship?

It all started with a challenge, “un pari” in French. Un jeu, a game.

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, New York, Society
Tagged Adrian Meyer, American Friends of Blerancourt, Black and White Ball, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Contessa Brewer, Dominique Senequier, Eric Mourlot, FIAF, Jay Gottlieb, Judith Pisar, Marc Levy, Marie-Monique Steckel, Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, Plaza Hotel New York, Romain Gary, Susanna Lea, Truman Capote

Lola’s Race

Posted on November 13, 2021November 14, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

LOLA’S RACE

As the sun rises over the Verrazano bridge, Mirjam Lavabre, a woman entrepreneur and single mother of one, is warming her muscles up at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Grey sport pants and a blue tee on, she is wearing runner’s bib 25341.

Mirjam leads a group of French friends, all about to pass the starting line of New York Marathon and engage on the 26.2-mile iconic race.

They are not just running to challenge their physical capacities; they are also raising money for First Candle foundation in memory of Mirjam’s daughter, who 15 years ago passed away of the sudden infant death syndrome. Her name was Lola, and it is written on capital letters on Mirjam’s arms, visible to the thousands of runners and supporters as she races through the five boroughs of Manhattan.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Mujeres, New York, Society
Tagged Abby Lundi, Emmanuel Saint-MArtin, First Candle Foundation, Le Bilboquet, Lenox Hill Hospital, Longchamp, Marathon, Mirjam Lavabre, New York Marathon, Olivier Miller Cassegrain, Philippe Delgrange, SIDS, Sudden infant death syndrome, SUDS

Art: Never Forget

Posted on September 19, 2021September 22, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

Art: Never Forget
English edited by Delphine Schrank

Who could have imagined in March 2001 that when the Taliban gleefully blew up the three giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, their appalling act of cultural vandalism was just a prelude to the assassination less than six months later of Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the country’s iconic resistance leader, and just two days after that, to the attacks of September 11? Silent vigils to the endless vicissitudes of human history, these storied sculptures had survived countless previous attempts to ransack or raid them since their creation sometime between the 4th and the 8th century. 

More recently, Islamic State terrorists, or ISIS, made a central mission of destroying the archaeological sites across Syria and Iraq—art, the collateral victim of anger and stupidity. 

Archaeologists had previously dismembered many of these relics and transported them to major Western museums—art, the collateral victim, or assumed booty, of powerful nations, human vanity, and plunderers too.

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, New York, Politics, Society
Tagged 58th Carnegie International, 58th Carnegie International and Curator-at-Large at Sculpture Center, 9/11, Armory Show, Bamiyan, Blooming, Camille Corot, Claudia Schmuckli, Corinne Erni, Emile Gallé, Exhibition Blooming, Experience Pommery, Experience#, Fantin Latour, Gauguin, Gustave Navlet, Irina Bokova, Jane Lombard Gallery, JC Agid, Jean-François Fourtou, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Pierre Formica, Keith Tyson, King Ashurnasirpal II, les Glaneuses, Louise Pommery, Mailys Vranken, Michael Rakowitz, Musée d'Orsay, Nathalie Vranken, Parish Art Museum, Paul-François Vranken, Pauline Vranken, Pommery Prize, Room F, Sculpture Center, Sohrab Mohebbi, UNESCO, Virginie Boudoscq, Vranken Pommery America, Vranken-Pommery Monopole

A Midsummer Dream in France

Posted on July 14, 2021July 22, 2021by JC Agid1 Comment

A Midsummer Dream in France
English edited by Delphine Schrank
French Version via Le Petit Journal

For some of us this summer, France is calling, and we may even experience the mysterious sense of a first encounter. Yet for many others, France remains a distant dream and desire, an aching absence after so many months. 

So, allow me to share with you my ideal vacation, the sum of multiple experiences: cultural, artistic, gastronomic, and oenological in historical and natural places. Together these make France one of the most varied, envied, and marveled-at countries in the world. I dream above all of sharing those experiences with family, a family of chosen friends, day after day.

So, come along this epistolary journey: a night in Versailles at Alain Ducasse’s newest hotel, an invitation to deep thought and conversation at the Napoleons in Arles, the magic of music in La Roque d’Anthéron, entertainment at the Festival de Ramatuelle, a breath of oxygen (and greed) atop Chamonix, and a glass of champagne in Reims to toast an exhibition with the seductive title, “Blooming.”

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Posted in Architecture, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Hospitality, Society, Travelogue
Tagged Alain Ducasse, alain souchon, Alexandre Kouchner, Anne Soupa, Arles, Bachelot-Caron, Barack Obama, Barthélémy Toguo, Béatrice Rana, Blooming, Camille Corot, Catherine Delot, Chalet du Caillet, Chamonix, Chamonix Mont Blanc, Chateau de Versailles, Delphine Horvilleur, Delphine Schrank, Domaine Pommery, Exhibition Blooming, Expérience Pommery, Fabrice Bousteau, Fabrice Lucchini, Festival de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron, Festival de ramatuelle, France, Gad Elmaleh, Gauguin, Gérard Philipe, Jacqueline Franjou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Josef Hofmann, Kahina Bahloul, Keith Tyson, La Roque d'Anthéron, Le Concorde, Le Grand Controle, Le Petit Journal, Le Réfectoire, Les Airelles, Les Airelles Chateau de Versailles, Les Napoleons, Mailys Vranken, Marseille, Michel Boujenah, Monder Abdennahder, Montenvers, Nathalie Vranken, Olivier Kosta, Olivier Moulierac, Paul-François Vranken, Philippe Katerine, Pleasure, Rachel Brunet, Rachmaninov, Ramatuelle, Reims, Renaud Capuçon, Shura Cherkassky, Stéphane Courbit, Thomas Pesquet, Vatel, Veronique Barbey, Versailles, Villa Demoiselle, Virginie Boudsocq, Vladimir Horovitz, Vranken, Women's Forum Brazil, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Women's Forum Mexico

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