Illustrative photo Matthieu Karam/L'Orient-Le Jour
Every morning at the 9:30 am editorial meeting, Claire, head of the news team, begins her remarks with her ritual: "So today, we have..." before listing the topics on the agenda. Since her department encompasses every aspect of everyday life in the country — from war to femicides, fortune-tellers who aren't always that adept at foretelling the country's future, car accidents to paragliding mishaps — her talk resembles Prévert’s "Inventory," where the poet lists a series of elements that seem to have no logical connection to each other. "A stone, two houses, three ruins, four gravediggers, a garden of flowers, a raccoon": the first words of that poem, which many French children learn in school, sometimes mirror the reality of Lebanon, a daily target of Israeli air strikes. From the same series...
Every morning at the 9:30 am editorial meeting, Claire, head of the news team, begins her remarks with her ritual: "So today, we have..." before listing the topics on the agenda. Since her department encompasses every aspect of everyday life in the country — from war to femicides, fortune-tellers who aren't always that adept at foretelling the country's future, car accidents to paragliding mishaps — her talk resembles Prévert’s "Inventory," where the poet lists a series of elements that seem to have no logical connection to each other. "A stone, two houses, three ruins, four gravediggers, a garden of flowers, a raccoon": the first words of that poem, which many French children learn in school, sometimes mirror the reality of Lebanon, a daily target of Israeli air strikes. From the same...
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