Alain Gresh
Deputy Director of Le Monde Diplomatique, and author of the blog Nouvelles d'Orient
French writer and journalist born in Egypt in 1958. President of the Association of French journalists specialised on the Maghreb and the Middle East (AJMO).
He has published numerous articles on the Near East and several books: Palestine 47, un partage avorté; PLO, The Struggle within in Un péril islamiste?; Les 100 portes du Proche-Orient (with Dominique Vidal); L'islam en questions (with Françoise Germain-Robin and Tariq Ramadan); Actualités de l’Etat palestinien (with Didier Billion); Golfe: Clefs pour une guerre annoncée; Israël, Palestine: Vérités sur un conflit; L'Islam, la République et le Monde y 1905-2005 : les enjeux de la laïcité, L'Harmattan.
His books have been translated in english, farsi, german, arab, dutch, japanese, italian, spanish, and portugese.
See Blog Nouvelles d'Orient
Spoken languages
English, French
Written languages
English, French




