Results for “Taliban”

Writing the War

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, November 16, 2022

Elliot Ackerman’s latest book about the fall of Kabul establishes him as a master of his genre.

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Afghanistan International : Exclusive interview (June 8, 2022)

Posted on Saturday 21 December 2024

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has visited #Afghanistan several times, in an exclusive interview told Afganistan International the #Taliban is...

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.

U.S. ‘Did Not Fail’ In Afghanistan, Legendary French Writer Says

Richard Miniter and David Martosko, Newsweek, October 28, 2021

After Afghanistan, America must not retreat from the world, says the famed French Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.

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.

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.

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