{"id":1950,"date":"2009-10-02T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:03:44","slug":"meeting-with-french-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/meeting-with-french-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with French press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you should all proudly know, Beirut is currently hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeux2009.org\/Page_accueil\" target=\"_blank\">VI\u00e8mes Jeux de la Francophonie<\/a>. The event has put our country into focus, especially by the french reporters and press who are getting to know and show how Leb really is.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Laurence Le Saux, french journalist,\u00a0got in touch with me for an interview about the book, that she saw at Virgin.<\/p>\n<p>We met at Torino Caf\u00e9 in Gemmayz\u00e9, where I also got to meet Emilie Mazoyer, who interviewed me for the french radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemouv.fr\" target=\"_blank\">le mouv&#8221;<\/a>. (Charbel from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/scrambledeggslebanon\" target=\"_blank\">Scrambled Eggs<\/a> was also there being interviewed). You can listen to the interview .<\/p>\n<p>I&#8221;m also posting you the interview right below <em><span style=\"color:#888888;\">(Thank you so much <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/patricksemaan.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"color:#888888;\"><strong>Patrick Semaan<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"color:#888888;\"> for helping me with this!)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>As for Laurence&#8221;s interview for T\u00e9l\u00e9rama.fr, you can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telerama.fr\/monde\/beyrouth-vu-par-une-blogueuse,47812.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say&#8230; Vive la France! Sorry for not posting as usual in the last days, I am so overloaded with work, but hopefully things will get back on track after the weekend! On Sunday, I will be attending the #tripolitweetup, so if any of you are in the Tripoli area, it would be a great chance to get to meet you! Have a great week-end!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you should all proudly know, Beirut is currently hosting the VI\u00e8mes Jeux de la Francophonie. The event has put our country into focus, especially by the french reporters and press who are getting to know and show how Leb really is. This week, Laurence Le Saux, french journalist,\u00a0got in touch with me for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[126,411,621,649,652,953,1023,1159,1185],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayas-amalgam-book","category-in-the-media","tag-beirut","tag-emilie-mazoyer","tag-jeux-de-la-francophonie","tag-laurence-le-saux","tag-le-mouv","tag-radio-france","tag-scrambled-eggs","tag-telerama-fr","tag-torino-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}