Leïla Slimani
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494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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But at the same time, as you said, they would always tell us, but outside you have to shut up.
Outside you have to be afraid of the Islamists because maybe if you talk about drinking alcohol they can become violent.
So you have to hide everything
you are.
You have to hide everything you think.
And to be really honest, when I was a teenager, I hated my parents for that.
I judged them very harshly because I thought that they were hypocrites and I thought that they were cowards.
And you know, when I was writing the book.
My own son is now fifteen years old, 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 m she was in a very difficult situation where um claiming and defending what she thought and what she believed in could uh have very, very dangerous consequences.
So now I can understand and now of course I can forgive her and forgive them for that.
Exactly.
My mother was an excellent doctor.
You know, when I go, it's very funny because when I go to Morocco and I I walk in in Rabat with with her, she is the most famous of the of the couple and she's always making fun of me, saying, Ah, you know, in France people recognize you and you're famous there, but here it's me.
She's an old woman now, but you can see how much
Respect people have for her because my mother, she would take everyone, every patient, the one who could pay and the one who could not pay.
My mother had a very high vision of medicine.
For her, it was really like a moral duty.
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