Delphine minoui biography

The Book Collectors

“Books bring us closer together. They’re a bridge between us,” Hussan Ayash tells journalist Delphine Minoui over Skype. Ayash belongs to a group of rebels in Syria who spent four years, from 2012 to 2016, under siege in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. In 2013, they discovered a cache of books in the ruins of a bombed house and decided to rescue them. They dug through the wreckage of other buildings as well, salvaging 6,000 books in one week, and created a secret library in the basement of an abandoned building. In precise yet passionate prose, Minoui tells this remarkable story in The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War.

With a French mother, an Iranian father and a home base in Istanbul, Minoui understands the region well and has won awards for her reporting on the Middle East. When she saw a photo of the library bunker, her first instinct was to travel to Daraya and start interviewing these unusual librarians. That journey would be impossible, however, so she began communicating with several of the young

Delphine Minoui

French journalist (born 1974)

Delphine Minoui (born 1974) is a French journalist specializing in the Iranian world.

Life

She majored in journalism at the CELSA Paris in 1997, then graduated from the EHESS in 1999.

Delphine Minoui moved to Iran to practice her profession. A correspondent of France Inter and France Info from 1999, she collaborated from 2002 with Le Figaro.[1] She has also directed and collaborated on several documentaries.

In 2006, Delphine Minoui was awarded the prix Albert Londres for a series of articles on Iraq and Iran.[2]

She recently wrote about Nojoud Ali, the first little girl to get divorced in Yemen.

Bibliography

  • 2010: Jeunesse d'Iran; Les Voix du changement. Monde (in French). Paris: Autrement. 2001. p. 221. ISBN . LCCN 2001438000.
  • 2007: Demay, Layla; Watrin, Laure. Les Pintades à Téhéran; Chroniques de la vie des Iraniennes. Les Pintades à (in French). Paris: Éditions Jacob-Duvernet. p. 198. ISBN . LCCN 2007485179.
  • 2009: Demay, Layla; Watrin,

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