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Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Frenchman’s passion for Bangladesh’s Liberation War

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Dhaka Tribune, December 16, 2020

A true revolutionary has to get close, very close, to the things themselves; he has to move into the places where History, with a capital H, really happens.

Bangladesh

From Les Indes rouges (1973) to The Will To See (2020), Bangladesh remains close to the heart of Bernard-Henri Lévy. The only Muslim country led today by a woman is a model of tolerant Islam, sheltering a million Rohingya refugees driven out of Burma by the military junta. About this country at the mercy of climate change and western consumerism Lévy declared after his 2020 visit that it was “on the front line of the battle against radical Islam, poverty, migratory chaos, and ecological cataclysm.”

‘New Philosopher’; Bernard-Henri Levy

Stewart McBride, The CS Monitor, January 20, 1983

Levy is perhaps the best known and most iconoclastic of France's ''Nouveaux Philosophes,'' During the last six years, Levy has personally waged war against socialism in three controversial best sellers.

Bernard-Henri Lévy Implores Documentarians to Film the Front Lines of War

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Jewish Journal, December 07, 2023

French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard Henri-Lévy’s new documentary, “Glory to the Heroes,” is a raw collection of the battles and fears on the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia War in the summer of 2023.

On the frontline of Putin’s terrifying invasion

David Patrikarakos, Daily Mail, December 03, 2023

BHL takes cover as trenches are bombarded - as Kyiv's counter-offensive stalls and gets bogged down against well-fortified Russian lines

Portrait of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, May 10, 2011

The rules of the game: names, a collection of names, all of which had one thing in common: they had in one way or another played a part in BHL's intellectual or personal life.

On war and its dehumanization

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, January 09, 2023

As a philosopher, what is BHL's idea of war? Is war fundamentally human? Is man, in the end, a wolf who hunts man? Or is there still hope of eradicating war?

Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

Nuart Retrospective Presents the War Documentaries of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Gerri Miller, Jewish Journal, January 21, 2021

BHL makes cinema verité documentaries from the front lines of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, depicting war in all its brutality to highlight the plight of the oppressed.