Leïla Slimani

speaker

749 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

Leïla Slimani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud · Leïla Slimani · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And I don't, I mean, it's not that I'm immodest.

I hope that I will not look immodest, but it was a feeling, an intuition.

But I didn't know what success was.

And I think that for an artist, success can be very dangerous because it makes you, it can make you stupid.

It can make you vain.

And the biggest danger is wanting to capitalize on success and wanting to keep it and being afraid of losing it.

So, no, I don't mind being visible.

And there's also the thing that in France, when I became famous, I became famous as a woman, as an American woman.

And I was proud also, too.

represent Moroccan women and more generally women from the Arab world.

And it was important for me to always keep my natural hair and to, I don't know, to try to embody a certain...

visibility, a different visibility of Arab women.

Because in France, there are a lot of, not only in France, but in Europe or in the Western world, a lot of cliché when it comes to Arab women.

People always think that they are dominated, that they are like this or like that.

And it was very important for me also to show another aspect and another image of an Arab woman.

You know, I remember when I read for the first time Dostoevsky's book, Humiliated and Offended, Humilié et Offensé.

Insulted and injured, yeah.

Yeah, I loved it so much.

And what was really striking to me was that it was written by a man in Russia in the 19th century, but I felt he was talking about what was happening around me.

Because I was living in Morocco, in a very poor country, in an authoritarian regime where people were not free to say what they wanted to say and where there was a lot of violence between social class, between men and women.

Showing 81–100 of 749 · page 5 of 38