BEIRUT, TUNIS, ALGIERS, SALÉ, MARSEILLE, LYON I 2021
CROSSING WIRES
ENCOUNTERS, TALES
AND REVOLUTIONS
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.

