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CROSSING WIRES
ENCOUNTERS, TALES
AND REVOLUTIONS

BEIRUT, TUNIS, ALGIERS, SALÉ, MARSEILLE, LYON I 2021

We wandered around Tunis, Beirut, Algiers, Salé, Marseille and Lyon with several authors, discussing the deep shifts and transformations these places are going through. Together, we cross the Mediterranean to examine their hopes and disenchantments, what changes and what remains the same, anything that fuels their writing: the throes of their country, the future of revolutions, the transformations, encounters, memories and pictures of their stomping grounds.

Across the Celestial Sea
of the Mediterranean

#1 LEBANON – Beirut, Adrift – with Camille Ammoun
#2 TUNISIA – Ten Years on, and No Spring in Sight – with Nadia Khiari
#3 MOROCCO – The Ghosts of Salé – with Abdellah Taïa
#4 LEBANON – Beirut, Light Is All that Remains When Everything Crumbles – with Valérie Cachard
#5 FRANCE – Lyon, a stone’s throw away from the lights of the Mediterranean – with François Beaune
#6 ALGERIA – Algiers, Eastern promises – with Salah Badis
#7 LEBANON – Beirut, the ruins of August 4th – with ENSATT and USEK students
#8 FRANCE – Marseille gets in your eyes – with Hadrien Bels

Directed by: Clément Baudet, Marc-Antoine Granier, Houcine Haddouche, Yacine Hirèche, Alice Lefilleul, Lucy Charpie and Alexandre Plank

CROSSING WIRES – Across the Celestial Sea of the Mediterranean is a podcast series produced by Villa Gillet; the French Institute in Paris; Livres des deux rives, a conversation across the Mediterranean through books; the French Institute in Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia; and Making Waves. The series is supported by the AG2R La Mondiale Foundation’s NAFAS patronage scheme and the City of Lyon.

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