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Massoud in Paris

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 12, 2021

Paris shows gratitude to the Afghan hero who tried to stop the Sept. 11 attacks—and whose warnings about Islamist fanaticism remain urgent today.

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Speaks

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 29, 2017

The day after his successful independence referendum, the commander of the Peshmerga talks with Bernard-Henri Lévy about Kurdistan’s neighbors Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, French President Macron, and the future of his people.

The last person who believe in western intervention

Elliot Ackerman, Time, February 21, 2022

Over the course of four decades Lévy has made a name for himself traversing the globe in an effort to turn the world’s attention to forgotten conflicts, humanitarian crises. He continues with “The Will to See”

The heartbreak unfolding in Afghanistan

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Telegraph, November 14, 2021

Surviving winter is the first of many hurdles for those hoping to resist the Taliban.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Defining oneself by an identity is an impoverishment of what you are”

Freddie Hayward, The New Statesman, October 20, 2021

The French intellectual on culture wars and global crises.

Afghanistan

Described here are eight trips to Afghanistan made by a French writer over a period of 40 years, the country and its unceasing tragedy ever in his heart. The abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban is considered a wound and a stain by countless humanitarians, academics, archaeologists, soldiers, diplomats, and ordinary citizens, as it is for all lovers of liberty. But the fight goes on. Yesterday with the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud; today with his son, the new Lion of Panjshir.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Cancel culture is churning out imbeciles”

Celia Walden, The Telegraph, October 15, 2021

The author known as BHL mulls over cross-Channel relations, the wars worth fighting and how to find hope in a world of misery.

The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now. But we need help.

Ahmad Massoud, The Washington Post, August 18, 2021

Ahmad Massoud leads the resistance in the province of Panjshir. Can he and his fighters hold out?

The bell tolls for us in Kabul

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Spectator, August 29, 2021

The image of the liberal democracies, epitomised by the US, is tragically tarnished.