Leïla Slimani
speaker
494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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You know, I think belonging, of course, can be very comforting, but it can also be dangerous.
So this question of belonging for me is a very moral question.
It's an ethical question.
Yeah, absolutely.
I was raised like this.
In my house, in the bubble of my family, we would say whatever we wanted to say.
And my parents, they would even encourage us to be free and to read whatever we wanted to read, to watch any kind of movies.
They would talk about equality between men and women.
They were not believers and they would not follow the rules of Islam.
They would not do Ramadan or things like this.
They would drink alcohol.
So in the bubble of the house, we were very liberal, very free.
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 you're
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 15 years old.
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