NYT > World News Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91 Par :Adam Nossiter 28 août 2025 à 10:43 His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about. © Sophie Bassouls/Sygma, via Getty ImagesGérard Chaliand in 1992. His lectures on geopolitics routinely drew top-level diplomats and officers.
NYT > World News Tiébilé Dramé, Voice for Rights in Mali, Is Dead at 70 Par :Adam Nossiter 22 août 2025 à 15:15 A former foreign minister, he founded an opposition political party and then served in the government as an unflagging negotiator with northern rebels. © Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesTiébilé Dramé in 2019. He was often on the edge of power in Mali but never at the center.
NYT > World News Sonallah Ibrahim, Egyptian Novelist of Irony and Dissent, Dies at 88 Par :Adam Nossiter 21 août 2025 à 12:19 Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state. © Frederic Reglain/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty ImagesThe Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim in 1999. He chronicled his country’s submission to dictatorship and materialism with deadpan irony.
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