Leïla Slimani

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494 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Aug

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Fresh Air · French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

For me, it was not like that.

I was with a photographer in the city of Qasrin, which is at the frontier between Algeria and Tunisia.

And we woke up very early to take pictures in, I think, an abandoned factory and in the suburbs of the city.

And what they wanted were the pictures.

And the photographer would not give them to us.

to the cops.

So they kept us for hours and trying to convince the photographer to give the pictures.

But then, you know, I was not very worried because I had a lot of trust towards my magazine, Jeune Afrique, which is very well known in Tunisia.

So I called, I had the right to call one person and I called immediately

in Paris and I said, okay, we are in this situation.

You have to find a way to take us out of this.

So we waited a few hours and then it was solved and we gave the pictures to them.

I'm trying to remember.

No, I think that I was very angry.

I was angry against the people who arrested us.

No, I was furious.

I was not very worried.

I knew that it was going to be okay, but I was really, really full of anger and I was yelling and I was...

telling them that it was a shame and things like that so no I was very much focused on my anger I think.

No, I don't think so.

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