Through this work, the laureate analyzes the difficulty of transmitting the experience of imprisonment and restoring their identity to those whom repression has broken. This fight to give a voice to those forgotten in the Middle East wars is accompanied by a commitment to the situation of journalists in the field.
This Beirut-based correspondent covers news from the Middle East, striving to tell the story of the lives that political violence, bombs and sometimes the media relegate to the shadows. We then see him on television, on LCI, filming himself in the middle of Beirut devastated by the bombings, before revealing the words of those who are suffering these events head-on.
This work on the memory of Syrian survivors highlights a broader concern about the way in which the media tell or fail to tell certain lives, particularly Arab lives. Last April, the work had already won the journalism book prize at the Assises du journalism in Tours.
The journalist also pointed out the unworthy conditions in which correspondents live abroad, in war zones or not, who often have to finance everything themselves. He listed the costs not covered, including by public service media, including hotels, transport, meals, insurance, software, equipment or bulletproof vests, while a report is paid one hundred euros gross.