Alain Gresh

Alain Gresh (born 1948 in Cairo, Egypt) is a French journalist and former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. He wrote articles mainly on the Islamic world and the Arab world.[1] Alongside his career, he is a Palestinian nationalist activist.[2] He is often qualified by journalists as an "islamo-leftist".[3][4][5] A journalistic investigation of Le Figaro classifies him among the "agents of influence of Islam" in France.[6]

Alain Gresh in 2014

Biography

Alain Gresh was raised in Cairo, Egypt. He moved to Paris in his teens to study Mathematics and Arabic. He continued studying the Near East in college, and wrote his PhD dissertation on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).[7]

He was editor of Le Monde diplomatique, and retired at end of 2015. He then cofounded the website Orient XXI.

Personal life

His biological father was Henri Curiel, an Italian-Jew that later became an Egyptian citizen. After being exiled from Egypt in 1950 because of his communist activities, he settled in France.

Selected articles
  • "Shadow of the army over Egypt's revolution",[8] Le Monde Diplomatique (August 2013)
  • "The Middle East: How the Peace was Lost",[9] Le Monde Diplomatique (September 2001)

Books

In English:

  • The PLO: The Struggle Within: Towards an Independent Palestinian State (1988).
  • The Middle East: War Without End? (1988). With Dominique Vidal.
  • An A to Z of the Middle East (1990). With Dominique Vidal.
  • Ordinary Days in Dheisheh: Is the World Watching? (2000). With Munā Hamzeh.
  • The New AZ of the Middle East (2004). With Dominique Vidal.
  • Israel, Palestine: Truths of a Conflict (2007).

In French:

  • Palestine 47, un partage avorté (1994).
  • Les 100 portes du Proche-Orient, Éditions de l'Atelier (1996/2006). With Dominique Vidal.
  • L'islam en questions (2000). With Tariq Ramadan.
  • Palestine: Vérités sur un conflit (2001/2010).
  • L'Islam, la République et le Monde (2004).
  • 1905-2005: les enjeux de la laïcité (2005).
  • De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom? (2010).
  • Un chant d’amour. Israël-Palestine, une histoire française, with Hélène Aldeguer, éditions La Découverte, (2017)

References
  1. "Interview: Alain Gresh | Middle East Policy Council". www.mepc.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. Intifada française? De l'importation du conflit israélo-palestinien - Marc Hecker, editions-ellipses (2012), page 41,42,179,394
  3. https://charliehebdo.fr/2021/03/societe/islamo-gauchisme-savoir-de-quoi-on-parle/
  4. https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/04/14/islamo-gauchisme-aux-origines-d-une-expression-mediatique_1445857/
  5. https://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/1524662-du-judeo-bolchevisme-a-l-islamo-gauchisme-une-meme-tentative-de-faire-diversion.html
  6. https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/10/06/01016-20171006ARTFIG00069-politique-journalistes-intellos-enquete-sur-les-agents-d-influence-de-l-islam.php
  7. "Alain Gresh", Le Monde Diplomatique'.
  8. "Shadow of the army over Egypt's revolution". Le Monde diplomatique. 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  9. "The Middle East: how the peace was lost". Le Monde diplomatique. 2001-09-01. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
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