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The Fight for Democracy in Bernard-Henri Levy’s ‘Why Ukraine’

Tom Teicholz, Forbes, October 24, 2022

Ukraine will win this war, Lévy tell us, because its soldiers and citizens “know why they fight.” In Why Ukraine Lévy makes the case why we all need to fight for them.

From the Front Lines

Alessandra Stanley, Air Mail, October 18, 2022

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new documentary gives an unflinching look at the brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Willing ourselves to see

Peter Keough, The Boston Globe, April 28, 2022

Bernard-Henri Lévy's documentary “The Will to See” plunges the viewer into his frenetic globe-hopping to the places the world would prefer to forget.

Letter from Ukraine: A prayer for Odessa

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The New Statesman, March 26, 2022

As the Russian squadron blockading the city lies in anchor, Odessites reveal the depths of their courage as they prepare to defend their home.

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.

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Traveling Truth-Teller

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, October 28, 2021

As we find out in his new book, “The Will to See: Dispatches From a World of Misery and Hope”, Lévy has put himself in harm’s way in the dangerous and troubled places that he writes about, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

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.

Kurdistan

From Peshmerga to The Battle of Mosul, from The Empire and the Five Kings to Another Idea of the World, Bernard-Henri Lévy has never ceased to plead the cause of the Kurds, a long-suffering people repeatedly abandoned by their western allies. To the Kurds who fought ISIS and count the mountains as their only friends, Lévy promises : “I will stand by your side until the day I die.”

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.