Leïla Slimani
speaker
494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
Leïla Slimani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I put myself in the shoes of my parents.
And I thought, yeah, of course, if I was in the same situation, I think I would act the same.
My mother was not a coward.
She was a mother.
So she was in a very difficult situation where claiming and defending what she thought and what she believed in could have very, very dangerous consequences.
So now I can understand.
And now, of course, I can forgive her and forgive them for that.
My father was from Fez, a city in the center of Morocco, and his parents were illiterate.
They couldn't read or write, and they were quite poor.
And my father was very, very brilliant, so he went to the colonial school.
where he learned French.
And then he had the opportunity to become a functionaire, I don't know how to say in English.
Yeah, an official.
And then he became a minister of finance at the age of 31.
He was very, very young.
And he became very powerful at a very young age.
And then he was the head of a bank in Morocco.
And in 1993, so I was 12 years old, one day he came back home and never left again.
And I understood that he lost his job.
But at that time, no one would explain to us, the children, what the problem was.
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